2023-06-01 11:31:00
What will be the rest of Remco Evenepoel’s program following his cruel abandonment in the Tour of Italy? We already know his more distant goals, for the end of the season. They are numerous. And, given the status of the world champion, they are also very ambitious and very demanding. With the unmissable World Cup scheduled for August in Scotland. To keep his beautiful rainbow jersey in the road race, but also to get one in the time trial. The conquest of the Tour of Lombardy, an event on which he has a score to settle following his serious fall suffered in 2020 in the descent of the Col de Sormano, is also one of his big goals at the end of the season. Not to mention the Clasica San Sebastian, which is close to his heart: he won his first classic there in 2019, before winning once more last year.
But until then, what will he do? Remco Evenepoel also has a special connection with the upcoming Baloise Belgium Tour. He had won his very first victory among the pros there, in 2019, on… the Flandrian cobblestones of Zottegem, before winning the general classification two times in a row. He had also won his first victory of the 2021 season there, greeted with enormous relief following his retirement from the Giro a few months earlier. The Belgian event will also pass through its stronghold of Scheepdaal and there is a planned time trial. But according to our colleagues from the North of the country, he should not align himself there.
The Tour de Suisse track therefore remains a solid option. The Swiss event, in which he won the final time trial last year, begins on June 11 for eight stages, including two time trials, always very useful with the objective of the World Cup. in the viewfinder. But the timing will be tight. Because the race will start the day following the Rev Ride, his planned hike on June 10 on which he wants to be present, which would prevent him from being at the presentation, on the compulsory paper, of the Tour de Suisse.
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