Remco Evenepoel

The 22-year-old Belgian won the Spanish grand tour on Sunday and dreams of winning winning all three in his career.

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Dilbeek is planning on awarding the title of honorary citizen to Belgium's star cyclist Remco Evenepoel, after his victory in this year's Vuelta a España on ...

Remco Evenepoel is only 22, but is quickly building quite the cycling resume. He won Liège-Bastogne-Liège this spring, and his second Clásica San Sebastián ...

Every one of these victories was secured in classic Remco style—audacious solo attacks and blistering time trials. Evenepoel rode to red after Stage 6 and sealed the deal to the first victory for a Belgian rider in 44 years. He won Liège-Bastogne-Liège this spring, and his second Clásica San Sebastián in August, and now he’s added a Grand Tour to his palmares—La Vuelta a España.

Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel's crushing triumph at the Vuelta a Espana on Sunday saw the 22-year-old finally deliver on his early promise five seasons ...

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A swathe of riders left with the virus, including GC contenders Simon Yates and Pavel Sivakov. Bubbles, distancing, and facemasks were mandated in rules rolled out through the season. The three-time champion added to his growing list of grand tour calamities with a heavy crash that saw him exit the race just as his late-race resistance to Remco Evenepoel began. Grand tour rookies Ayuso and Rodríguez are just 19 and 21 respectively, and so Spain should see a lot more success in the future. Rigoberto Urán blazed to his first grand tour victory in eight years at this Vuelta but hasn’t hit a three-week top-10 since 2020. But a balance could be found in some more considered route planning. The season isn’t over, but EF Education EasyPost’s 2022 trophy cabinet is currently looking sparse with just eight victories. [Vuelta a España](https://www.velonews.com/category/events/vuelta-a-espana/) drew to a close in Madrid on Sunday. It doesn’t impact if a team wins races, but it can influence how the world feels when those victories arrive. And Spain’s Vuelta a España drought seemed unlikely to be anywhere near an end ahead of this year’s edition. Eagle-eyed fans and critics alike have access to riders’ quick-fire thoughts and personal lives with Instagram reels and pithy Twitter posts. Even his procedures with the press were polished.

Belgian 22-year-old rider dominates three-week race, taking victory after 21st and final stage.

The Ecuadorian, who is Olympic road race champion, won three stages here. We can be really proud of what we did the last three weeks," Evenepoel said at the finish line. This was a career landmark for Evenepoel and concludes his comeback from a career-threatening fall into a ravine during the Tour of Lombardy in Italy two years ago.

Remco Evenepoel did what many said he couldn't - Win a Grand Tour. He had tricky moments, but other days he dominated the race.

In sixth place was another, ‘man of the future’ Thymen Arensman; a stage win endorses the 22 years-old Dutchman as a possible future Grand Tour podium rider for DSM – or is it INEOS? Happy that I am the first to win a Grand Tour for Patrick and happy I did it in this fantastic team.’ But that wasn’t happening, the young Belgian gains in confidence with the passing of each stage and has now added a road stage to his time trial victory. And if you had told me as I watched Fred Wright win the u23 Berlin Six Day with Jake Stewart back in 2017 that he’d have two of Spanish Cycling’s biggest names riding in his service within a few years, I may have raised an eyebrow. But it’s a long time, 44 years since a Belgian won at this level; the press will be beating a path to Johan de Muynck’s door, Belgium’s last Grand Tour winner, way back in the 1978 Giro, so Remco, QuickStep and Belgium should savour this moment. Saturday then is the last chance for Mas; call me a cynic but his accelerations today looked to me like, ‘TV attacks’ – to look good for viewers but not really believing that he could break the elastic attached to Remco. That said, I haven’t yet had it explained what happens if teams don’t want to go up from ProTeam up to World Tour; the financial implications are huge – a bigger salary bond to the UCi and a much higher level of staffing. It was a ‘paint drier’ stage up until the tiny peloton contested the sprint with Pedersen just too strong for the ever present Fred Wright. Then there’s the aspect that Rigo is a big star in Colombia and his every move will attract big column inches for the sponsors. Second placed Mas talks the talk but whilst he has a decent buffer on Ayuso and Rodriguez; would he risk second place in Madrid, all those UCi points and not being best Spaniard to try and depose Remco? Remco will be looking forward to the lead car pulling ahead tomorrow and Stage 17 getting under way with the Stage 16 polemica consigned to yesterday’s news. Did the loss of Primoz Roglič make a difference?

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The team coped remarkably well during the Vuelta considering its relative inexperience and the loss of two riders but Lefevere admits that over the coming years more grand tour domestiques will be required. In the first week when he dropped everyone without really attacking, but by just speeding up and speeding up, that was impressive. We don’t have to hide that Julian was very important for Remco because they compliment each other very well, and he listens to Julian. Everyone said he couldn’t do it on the steep climbs but he did. At the Vuelta he won two stages and never looked back after moving into the overall lead on stage 6. For Lefevere it was Evenepoel’s all-round ability and maturity that stood out over the Spanish grand tour.