After an exceptional season marked by a 3rd place on the Tour de Francea double gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games 2024, a time trial world champion title, and concluded with a very good second place in the Tour of Lombardy behind Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel logically received the title of “Flandrien” of the year 2024 awarded by the newspaper The Newspaper. Questioned by the media after his victory, the 24-year-old Belgian does not hide his ambitions for 2025, particularly for the next Tour de Francewhere he expects more from his teammates in order to compete with the teams of Pogacar et Vingegaard.
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Remco Evenepoel: “The 2024 Tour de France? I'm not going to say it wasn't good, but…”
Remco Evenepoel does not hide his ambitions for the rest of his career, including the quest for a victory in the general classification of Tour of Italy a you Tour de France. “The Tour is not a toy. It's not easy to make the general classification. Everyone really needs to be at 110%. I'm not going to say it wasn't good this year, but I think it could have been better. Then I talk about the fitness level of certain runners. My third place on the Tour motivated me enormously to do better on a grand tour. It doesn't matter which one, but… I would really like to have the feeling of winning a Grand Tour again. So that will be the focus for next year.”
“Last season I dominated the time trials. I also noticed that I am one of the best climbers, but there are two even better. Pogacar and Vingegaard are my new references. We can say that I'm young and I still have time to win Grand Tours, but I'm 25 years old. Maybe I'll do this for another five or six years, so the time is right. remaining goals are to win the Giro and the Tour, so I want to fully invest in it,” concludes the runner Soudal-Quick Step.
