Road – Remco Evenepoel returning to competition during the Flèche Brabançonne 2025?

Remco Evenepoel hopes to be able to return to competition during the Flèche Brabançonne 2025. Photo: Soudal Quick-Step

Remco Evenepoel spoke this Thursday, January 9 by video conference during the presentation of his team in Calpe, Spain. The opportunity to discuss the date of a possible return to competition which could take place during the Flèche Brabançonne 2025, on April 18.

Absent from the official presentation of the training Soudal Quick-Step which took place this Thursday, January 9 at Calpe (Spain) due to medical examinations in Belgium, Remco Evenepoelvictim of an accident in training on December 3, was nevertheless present by video conference to respond to the numerous responses from the journalists present. The opportunity for the double Olympic champion Paris to lift the veil on his probable return to competition.

Remco Evenepoel: “Ride outside again at the beginning of February”

“The scan this morning was pretty positive. The results are quite good, the shoulder is healing well. It was quite serious and severe, she was done for. I’m happy, I was able to have my first physio session, that means my rehabilitation can begin. Now it’s day by day to move forward and try to strengthen my shoulder. It is important that the shoulder can withstand the shocks associated with the road before being able to emerge. I’m going to start with a month on the trainer and then I hope to be able to ride outside again in early February. »

A return to competition hoped for during the Flèche Brabançonne 2025

At the end of its revalidation, Remco Evenepoel hopes to be able to return to competition in April. “The goal is to return to the Flèche Brabançonne. It will be difficult to return to the Ardennes, but I know them very well. And then it’s in Belgium and for the practical and moral side, it’s close to home and that’s a good thing. It’s also better to come back to a one-day race, rather than a stage race like the Giro in 2021. It’s a risk, but it’s easier to come back to a one-day race. »

Remco Evenepoel: “Difficult to accept”

“The day of my accident, it was the first time that I did real training again, I was launching my 2025 season. So, it was difficult to accept. That means that I haven’t been able to do anything yet and that I’m very far from being in good shape. Staying ten weeks without cycling and without work, I know what it’s like and how difficult it is to come back. Having two such major setbacks in the same year is demoralizing. I was at the top in July with the podium in the Tour de France and then at my lowest in winter, the contrast is enormous. At first it was difficult to deal with but as time went on I became more positive. »