Winner of Saturday’s time trial, Evenepoel dominated his rivals on Sunday to consolidate his overall victory in a race he controlled from start to finish.
Sunday evening, on the heights of Malhao, Remco Evenepoel might have lit a cigar the diameter of a stick of chair to accompany the most famous replica of Colonel John “Hannibal”, the boss of Barracuda and The All Risks Agencywho adored “that a plan goes off without a hitch”.
Landed on this Tour of Algarve with the firm desire to repeat his final success of 2020, the rider from Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl will have been able to show himself perfectly faithful to the strategy devised with the staff of the Belgian formation upstream of the Portuguese test. “Saturday’s time will be the most decisive stage for the overall victory”had blown Brabançon under the sun of Portimao, the scene of the start of the first stage.
