{"id":240590,"date":"2025-10-26T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240590\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:07:09","slug":"agent-of-evenepoel-explains-why-best-is-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240590\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent of Evenepoel Explains Why Best Is Yet to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Evenepoel raises doubts about Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s participation in Tour de France. <\/p>\n

\"Evenepoel\"<\/p>\n

Evenepoel suffered in Friday’s time trial. (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Published October 25, 2025 04:27PM<\/p>\n

He was third in his first Tour, was a non-finisher this year but Remco Evenepoel<\/a> can shine with the right buildup next season.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the assertion of his father and agent, Patrick Evenepoel, who infers that the 2024 podium finisher was at a big disadvantage this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that Remco \u2013 with a good winter, a good preparation and without bad luck \u2013 can perform at 100 percent in the Tour and achieve a very good result,\u201d Evenepoel senior told RTBF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe leader had a difficult winter, being doored last December while training and suffering serious injuries.<\/p>\n

He returned to competition in April, winning Brabantse Pijl, but his disrupted buildup meant his form was sporadic.<\/p>\n

He won the stage 5 time trial in the Tour, wore the white jersey of best young rider and was sitting third overall, but withdrew from the event on stage 14<\/p>\n

Since then he won world and European TT titles, and was second to Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> in the road races at both championships.<\/p>\n

Beating the Slovenian is his biggest obstacle to Tour glory. There seems to be a large gap between them, but Patrick Evenepoel believes his team transfer could be a catalyst to a new level.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at the results that Tim Merlier achieved after his coach change. Poga\u010dar also changed coach two years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a need for renewal. With new scientific insights, training methods and nutrition, Remco wants to make progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could Poga\u010dar miss the Tour?
\n\"DanishJonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Poga\u010dar in this year\u2019s Tour de France (Photo: Pool\/Bernard Papon \/ Belga Mag \/ Belga via AFP)<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar is poised to take a record-equaling fifth Tour victory next summer but, surprisingly, Evenepoel senior casts doubts on his participation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you sure Poga\u010dar is coming? You guys [journalists] are always talking about him, but I don\u2019t have the impression he\u2019s going to the Tour next year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wants to drive the Giro and the Vuelta. That information comes from the heart of the peloton.\u201d<\/p>\n

That suggestion will be viewed with surprise by some, including Poga\u010dar\u2019s agent Alex Carera. He told Velo recently that the Tour de France was a certainty next season, and also explained what the rider will do<\/a> to avoid the third week blues he experienced this season.<\/p>\n

As for Evenepoel, both his new team and his father hold back from Tour confirmation at this point in time. Both indicate that decision will be made later.<\/p>\n

What would have helped guarantee his participation and boost his chances is if race organizer ASO had devised a course that would have better ensured suspense about the outcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doe Evenepoel senior accept that a longer TT on stage 16 would have boosted his son\u2019s chances?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t win a Tour in a time trial anyway,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou win the Tour in the mountains. Whether it is a time trial of 40, 50 or 60 kilometers, I don\u2019t think that changes anything. In the last week you can have a lead of three minutes, but lose ten minutes in one stage.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Evenepoel raises doubts about Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s participation in Tour de France. Evenepoel suffered in Friday’s time trial.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,54263,82,113303,70573,54266,62850,54267],"class_list":["post-240590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-patrick-evenepoel","tag-tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tag-tour-de-france","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240590","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=240590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}