{"id":859459,"date":"2026-08-15T21:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859459\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T21:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:32:09","slug":"remco-evenepoel-launches-project-canada-with-mathieu-van-der-poel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859459\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel launches \u2018Project Canada\u2019 with Mathieu van der Poel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remco <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/remco-evenepoel-racing-again-24-hours-after-tour-de-france-ends\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evenepoel<\/a> and Mathieu van der Poel are putting in the work together as they build toward the world championships in Montreal. Just a couple of bros getting the volume in before they head on over to Canada for the biggest race of the year. No biggie, Canadian Cycling Magazine. It\u2019s key not to fanboy\/girl over this stuff. Anywho, let\u2019s continue.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Canada!<\/p>\n<p>Evenepoel shared a photo from a training ride on Strava featuring Van der Poel, captioning it simply: \u201cProject Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The double Olympic champ is coming off a second-place finish at the Tour de France and a victory at Cl\u00e1sica San Sebasti\u00e1n. He will now turn his attention to the world championships, where he will be among the favourites for the road race. There\u2019s also a Slovenian who may be up for it.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Poel also has a busy autumn ahead. Before heading to Montreal for the road worlds, the eight-time \u2018cross champ is targeting the mountain bike world championships in <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/mtb\/mathieu-van-der-poel-targets-mountain-bikes-and-montreal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Val di Sole<\/a> in two weeks. He could also race the World Cup in Les Gets next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the pair are using the altitude of Livigno to prepare for their respective goals\u2014and getting some training miles together along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal 2026<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 UCI road world champs go from Sept. 20 to 27 in Montreal. It\u2019s been a while since Canada\u2019s had the world champs\u2014the last time was 2023 in Hamilton. Previously it was 1974 when some guy named Eddy Merckx won.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the under-23 and elite men\u2019s squad here, along with the junior men and women\u2019s selection here. Given the Tour de France Femmes, Cycling Canada has told Canadian Cycling Magazine that the women\u2019s team will be announced next week. But either way, it\u2019s gonna be a banger of a week! If you can\u2019t go, don\u2019t you worry, the folks at CCM are all over it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/canadiancycling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, stories galore, we gotchu.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel and Mathieu van der Poel are putting in the work together as they build toward the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,13633,5901,82],"class_list":["post-859459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859459","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=859459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}