A model teammate, the Alpecin rider won his first professional victory. Active in the counter-attack, Remco Evenepoel then rejoined the peloton because his objective is Saturday at the Tour of Lombardy.
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Journalist at the Sports department
Published on 7/10/2024 at 6:57 p.m.
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Lhe Lombardy does not escape bad weather and this element has the gift of removing Remco Evenepoel from its optimal concentration towards its objective on Saturday between Bergamo and Como. Two days after a Tour of Emilia contested under downpours of water, where he had given up as soon as Tadej Pogacar had definitively placed his rainbow signature on the trophy, the Brabançon approached the Coppa Bernocchi without any other pretensions than that of adding kilometers in its preparation for the fifth and final “Monument” of the cycling season. Winner in Legnano, in the rain again, in 2021, Evenepoel interfered in a royal counter-attack 80 miles from the finish behind the breakaway of the day. With beautiful people to boot. There was his teammate Mauri Vansevenant there but above all two representatives of the insatiable Team UAE, Marc Hirschi, winner of the Coppa Agostini the day before and his teammate, the Frenchman of Russian origin Pavel Sivakov.
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