{"id":832373,"date":"2026-07-28T22:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832373\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:56:17","slug":"remco-evenepoel-racing-again-24-hours-after-tour-de-france-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832373\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel \u2018racing\u2019 again 24 hours after Tour de France ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour de France is over (for the men, that is) so it\u2019s time for some of the top finishers to brush up on their acting. By acting, that means some <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/watch-jonas-vingegaard-win-an-clearly-fake-race-in-singapore\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fun little post-Tour crits.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/remco-evenepoel-to-go-to-bed-earlier-in-case-of-overnight-doping-checks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a> didn\u2019t have much time to celebrate his runner-up finish at the Tour de France before pinning on a \u2018race\u2019 number again. And surprise surprise, even though he\u2019d just finished a tough Grand Tour, somehow the Double Olympic champ managed to win!<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next for Evenepoel<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after the Tour wrapped up in Paris, the Belgian star was back in his hometown of Aalst for the opening post-Tour criterium. It marked his first appearance in the event after completing the Tour, with his next major objective coming at Saturday\u2019s Cl\u00e1sica San Sebasti\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my hometown, and this race fits perfectly into my schedule,\u201d Evenepoel said to <a href=\"https:\/\/sporza.be\/nl\/2026\/07\/27\/remco-evenepoel-lag-om-230-uur-in-bed-maar-koerste-vandaag-al-in-geboortestad-aalst-niet-veel-energie-wel-veel-motivatie~1785169622899\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sporza<\/a>. \u201cIt keeps me going before San Sebasti\u00e1n.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old admitted the turnaround from Paris to Aalst was anything but relaxing. After celebrating with his Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe teammates following the Tour, he didn\u2019t get to bed until around 2:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a small celebration with the team, some food and drinks,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a short night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Evenepoel said he is looking forward to the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy energy isn\u2019t very high right now, but my motivation certainly is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best Tour yet<\/p>\n<p>Evenepol became the first Belgian since Lucien Van Impe in 1981 to finish second overall. Granted, the unfortunate withdrawal of Visma-Lease a Bike\u2019s Jonas Vingegaard certainly helped that, but the Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe rider had a great Tour, with two stage wins, including one in the mountains just ahead of Pogi. (Whether or not that was an accidental gift by the yellow jersey, we will never know, but it was clear his heart wasn\u2019t exactly into it given the abandonment of his arch-rival and friend, Vingegaard.)<\/p>\n<p>Although the men\u2019s Tour de France is done, The Tour de France Femmes begins on Saturday with a 138-km stage in Lausanne. Start lists are being confirmed but already there are already a few Canucks on it, and certainly more to come. Each stage is being broadcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/FloBikes.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FloBikes.com<\/a>, and there will be daily reports on Canadian Cycling Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tour de France is over (for the men, that is) so it\u2019s time for some of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-832373","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\/832373","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=832373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}