{"id":165187,"date":"2025-09-24T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165187\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:46:09","slug":"i-rode-with-the-fastest-shoes-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165187\/","title":{"rendered":"I rode with the fastest shoes in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday was a great day for Dutch cycling, winning all three UCI time trials scheduled for the day. Two of them in the junior category at the World Championships<\/a> in Kigali. And a part of elite world champion Remco Evenepoel<\/a> was present on the course also today thanks to 16-year-old Laura Fiv\u00e9. The young Belgian encountered a material emergency before her start and none other than the “aero-bullet” came to her rescue.”I had been given ankle boots with a zipper, and they were really painful. Everyone still needed the ankle boots for tomorrow, for the mixed relay. If I fell, they would be ruined,” she explained to Sporza<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fiv\u00e9 quickly contacted about everyone she knew in Kigali, including the Belgian hero from last Sunday. “We sent a message to Remco’s dad to ask if we could use his shoes,” the Belgian explains. Luckily for Fiv\u00e9, they were. “This is truly wonderful. I’m so happy. I was in shock, because you wouldn’t expect that, but he’s a friendly guy.”<\/p>\n

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Just a few minutes later, Remco Evenepoel himself appeared to deliver his own shoes to Fiv\u00e9! “Not even two minutes later, he was there. I ride with the fastest boots in the world,” said the sixteen-year-old rider.<\/p>\n

Fiv\u00e9 ultimately crossed the finish line with tenth best time, 1:36 behind winner Megan Arens. Not an upset result for the Belgian timetrial champion, but not a disaster either for the first-year junior who will be one of the main names to watch next year when she’ll be the axis predator in time trials herself.<\/p>\n

Fiv\u00e9 was happy with her time trial, though. “It went pretty well. I did feel the altitude affecting me. It was the first time I rode with a pacing plan, and that went well. I tried to make myself as small as possible on the descents.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday was a great day for Dutch cycling, winning all three UCI time trials scheduled for the day.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-165187","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\/165187","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=165187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}