Remco Evenepoel has hinted that he may broaden his spring schedule in 2026, and Johan Museeuw is all for it. The former Classics star says Evenepoel has the talent to take every major classic on the calendar \u2014 and that only the Tour de France and Paris\u2013Roubaix are missing from his palmar\u00e8s.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel has already passed two draft race plans to Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013Hansgrohe management. One leans into the classics before the Tour de France; the other pairs the Giro d\u2019Italia with the Tour). If the Giro drops off the table, he could finally dip a toe into Milan\u2013San Remo or the Tour of Flanders \u2014 \u201cas long as it doesn\u2019t compromise the ideal build-up to the Tour,\u201d he said to Het Laatste Nieuws<\/a>.<\/p>\n Museeuw said he hopes Evenepoel chooses the classics-plus-Tour path. He recalled meeting a young Evenepoel during his first pro season in Livigno \u2014 Museeuw wearing a T-shirt with all five Monuments printed on it. \u201cI told you that you could win every one of those races,\u201d Museeuw said. \u201cAnd you shot back that Flanders and Roubaix weren\u2019t goals. I was stunned. But I\u2019ll repeat it now: all the great classics are within your reach. You\u2019re lucky \u2014 you can pick from so many races you\u2019re capable of winning. The Tour sits at the top, just ahead of Worlds. But if you want the full palmar\u00e8s\u2026 the Tour and Roubaix are the ones that complete it. Pogacar didn\u2019t shy away from that.\u201d<\/p>\n Evenepoel admits he has put the idea in front of the team. He\u2019d like the chance to \u201cexplore a bit more of the classic spring,\u201d if the schedule allows. He joked that if Museeuw insists, \u201cI won\u2019t have much choice but to try, right?\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s not promising it will happen immediately \u2014 \u201cmaybe not this year,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cBut someday. I\u2019d be quicker in Milan\u2013San Remo or Flanders than in Roubaix, I think. Those two fit me better, and they\u2019re easier to blend with the Ardennes.\u201d<\/p>\n Evenepoel will join Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe this winter as one of the team\u2019s leading riders. However, if he will take the start in the 2026 Tour de France remains undecided.<\/p>\n Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe\u2019s Zakkari Dempster said \u201cWe are looking at the parcours with the general classification in mind. But there are also plenty of stages that suit our racing style and the strengths of many of our riders.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPoga\u010dar can sustain an acceleration longer than anyone else. For several minutes, he can push twenty, thirty, even forty watts above the rest, then it settles back to a more \u2018normal\u2019 level,\u201d Sven Vanthourenhout, directeur sportif of the German team, said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Evenepoel has said he wants to improve in this area. \u201cIt\u2019s up to my new coach to find a solution,\u201d the Belgian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel has hinted that he may broaden his spring schedule in 2026, and Johan Museeuw is all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,5901,82],"class_list":["post-289317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289317","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=289317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}