{"id":577035,"date":"2026-03-31T20:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:51:10","slug":"will-evenepoel-race-flanders-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/577035\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Evenepoel race Flanders after all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/revcat1.jpeg\" alt=\"Will Evenepoel race Flanders after all?\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">Following an underwhelming ride at the Volta a Catalunya, Remco Evenepoel is reportedly considering making his Tour of Flanders debut after all.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dane Cash\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dane-Cash-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;will he, won&#8217;t he?&#8221; is back on. After offseason reports suggested that Remco Evenepoel was <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/the-pogacar-effect-evenepoel-will-race-the-classics-or-the-giro-in-2026\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">considering<\/a> racing this year&#8217;s Tour of Flanders or Giro d&#8217;Italia only to have Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe announce that he would do neither, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wielerflits.nl\/nieuws\/remco-evenepoel-zet-toch-zijn-zinnen-op-de-ronde-van-vlaanderen\/?ref=escapecollective.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wielerflits<\/a>  reports that Evenepoel might actually line up at De Ronde after all.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old is a two-time Monument winner thanks to back-to-back victories at Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge but his resume is very light on experience racing on cobbles. He made a few appearances in smaller races like Nokere Koerse and Binche-Chimay-Binche early in his career and he is the defending champion at Brabantse Pijl, which does feature some pav\u00e9, but he has never ridden any of the major Cobbled Classics at the WorldTour level.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s Tour of Flanders, then, would mark his debut in the race, and although Evenepoel recently reiterated that he won&#8217;t be at the start line, Wielerflits now reports that he is joining Red Bull&#8217;s Classics squad for a course recon on Thursday. If all goes well, he will apparently be in the lineup for the race itself. Wielerflits based its story off of information from &#8220;multiple sources&#8221; but did not include mention of whether the team itself has said anything; Escape&#8217;s own request for comment to the Red Bull team was not answered by publication time.<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"69cc0a75f0f610ac4f069339\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/remco-evenepoel\/\" title=\"Remco Evenepoel\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f2946b remco-evenepoel\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/tour-of-flanders\/\" title=\"Tour of Flanders\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f295b5 tour-of-flanders\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Flanders<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing Following an underwhelming ride at the Volta a Catalunya, Remco Evenepoel is reportedly considering making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-577035","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\/577035","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=577035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}