{"id":487099,"date":"2026-02-18T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487099\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:33:08","slug":"evenepoel-sets-the-pace-as-roubaix-sparks-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487099\/","title":{"rendered":"Evenepoel Sets the Pace as Roubaix Sparks Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">This week\u2019s SBS Cycling Podcast dives into a fast-moving start to the season, led by standout action at the UAE Tour. Remco Evenepoel steals the spotlight with a blistering time trial, signalling strong early form as he lines up future battles, including against Isaac Del Toro.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always nice to start off winning on a new team within a new environment to get that full backing<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">The hosts then turn to Jonas Vingegaard, whose rocky start and recent crash raise questions about his ambitions to win both the Giro d\u2019Italia and the Tour de France. The episode explores how early-season results can shape confidence and momentum heading into cycling\u2019s biggest races.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the guys that have challenged the Tour de France, they&#8217;ve started the season really well<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">There\u2019s also debate around changes to Paris Roubaix, alongside a look at women\u2019s racing, highlighted by Demi Vollering\u2019s win in Valencia as she builds toward the classics. Altogether, it\u2019s a sharp snapshot of a peloton already full of form, pressure, and big storylines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s SBS Cycling Podcast dives into a fast-moving start to the season, led by standout action at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-487099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}