{"id":157330,"date":"2025-09-20T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157330\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:59:08","slug":"i-dont-want-to-shout-it-from-the-rooftops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157330\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t want to shout it from the rooftops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remco Evenepoel<\/a> is in excellent shape, he told HLN <\/a>on Friday after his first recon of the time trial course for the World Cycling Championships in Rwanda<\/a>. The Belgian has often not been at his best this season, but with the battle for the rainbow jerseys approaching, he may well have planned it all perfectly.<\/p>\n

Of course, many riders would have signed up for a year like Evenepoel had in 2025, but after a training accident in December, things didn’t go quite as planned. He only started in April in the Brabantse Pijl, and although he won it straight away, he still fell short in the other Ardennes classics. In Romandy, he won the time trial, but was not yet able to keep up with the best on the climbs.<\/p>\n

In the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, that trend continued, with another win in the time trial, but after a fifth place in Romandy, he now finished fourth in the overall classification. After winning the Belgian time trial title, he seemed to be heading for the Tour de France with confidence, but after fourteen days of suffering, he gave up. It turned out that he had started with a broken rib<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"remco-evenepoel\"\/Excellent preparation is good for EvenepoelAfter Evenepoel restarted<\/a> in early August, he rode the Tour of Britain (where he won the penultimate stage<\/a>) and headed for the World Championships at altitude. And that has paid off, emphasized the Olympic time trial and road champion the day before the World Championship time trial. \u201cI don’t want to shout it from the rooftops, but I don’t think I’ve been in better shape this year than I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Evenepoel, that makes sense, because: \u201cI had a solid preparation, a long month of training, and I now also have five months of competition in the legs, like everyone else who has done the Tour. So it’s not illogical that I feel better now than I have all season. That’s also what we expected after the winter. It’s the first time I’ve been able to finish everything really well in training.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"remcoEvenepoel wants to turn around ‘difficult season’ at World and European Championships<\/p>\n

On Friday, Evenepoel spoke of \u2018a difficult season\u2019, which he says he can still brighten up at the World Championships, European Championships, and Tour of Lombardy. He is already the top favorite for the time trials at the championships, as Evenepoel won this year in Romandy, the Dauphin\u00e9, the Belgian Championship, and the Tour de France time trial, despite not being in top form. How will that go with super legs?<\/p>\n

Bad news for Tadej Pogacar and others who want to challenge him on Sunday. The fast rider, who will be riding for Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe from 2026<\/a>, also sees a perfect course for a third consecutive World Championship time trial title. \u201cIt’s a course I like: wide, lots of straights, not technical, lots of positioning.\u201d His highly praised aerodynamic position also comes into its own.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will also be a lot of pace changes because it’s constantly up and down\u2014which doesn’t make it any easier\u2014but I actually like that,\u201d says Evenepoel, who will have to pace himself for the most challenging climbs at the end. \u201cIt’s often uphill, but this isn’t a mountain stage. These are hills, similar to those found in the Ardennes or the Amstel Gold Race. Efforts of four to five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel is in excellent shape, he told HLN on Friday after his first recon of the time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-157330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}