Remco Evenepoel is pondering of including the Tour de Romandie and the Nationwide Time Trial Championships to his build-up for the Tour de France, Belgian media report.
After struggling a number of fractures in a significant coaching accident over the winner, Evenepoel is at the moment on the comeback path, and he’s now at altitude in Sierra Nevada, Spain with the Soudal-QuickStep Giro d’Italia squad. His first race this season is Brabantse Pijl on April 18 and he’s then set to go on to do all of the Ardennes Classics.
Nonetheless, Het Laatste Nieuws claims that Evenepoel is then prone to make his debut within the Tour de Romandie (April 29 – Might 4) and will additionally add the Belgian TT Nationals, on account of be held in Brasschaat on June 27, simply earlier than the Tour de France.
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Whereas Evenepoel has by no means ridden the Amstel Gold, he’s a really acquainted determine in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, profitable it in each 2022 and 2023. Nonetheless, he has solely raced Romandie as soon as earlier than, again in 2019, when he completed 76th,
After his doable participation in Romandie, Evenepoel would then possible return to a second altitude coaching camp, earlier than heading, as has at all times been the plan for 2025, to the Criterium du Dauphiné. Assuming there are not any modifications to their race packages, the Dauphiné could be the primary time he and the 2 riders forward of him in final 12 months’s Tour de France – runner-up Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and outright winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) – cross swords this season.
The publication of the 2025 Belgian Nationwide Time Trial routes this Friday for each the elite women and men is due on April 11 and can presumably affect Evenepoel’s choice to race it or not, though a definitive affirmation shouldn’t be wanted till late Might.
If he does participate, the reigning World Time Trial Champion would presumably be utilizing the Belgian Nationals partly as a reference for the 20925 Tour de France’s sole particular person TT, set to happen in Cáen, Normandy, on stage 5 over 33 kilometres.
The Belgian gained the equal time trial stage within the 2024 Tour de France, a 25.7-kilometre take a look at on stage 7 from Nuits-San-George to Gevrey-Chambertin and he has already gained the Nationwide TT title, too, again in 2022.
