{"id":263185,"date":"2025-11-14T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263185\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:09:09","slug":"the-pogacar-effect-evenepoel-will-race-the-classics-or-the-giro-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263185\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poga\u010dar effect? Evenepoel will race the Classics or the Giro in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/evenepoelpogacar1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"The Poga\u010dar effect? Evenepoel will race the Classics or the Giro in 2026\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">The double Olympic champ is broadening his horizons in the first part of the season, and we might have Tadej Poga\u010dar to thank for that.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dane Cash\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dane-Cash-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kristof Ramon<\/p>\n<p>Remco Evenepoel is broadening his horizons. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hln.be\/wielrennen\/klassiek-plan-of-combo-giro-tour-programma-van-remco-evenepoel-bij-red-bull-kan-in-2026-twee-richtingen-uit~a54cf13a\/?ref=escapecollective.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Het Laatste Nieuws<\/a>, the double Olympic champion has presented his new Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team with two different potential racing programs for 2026. Each one would see him hunting separate objectives in the first part of the season before he makes another run at the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>One path will focus on the Classics, with HLN reporting that Evenepoel would ride Milan-San Remo &#8220;and\/or&#8221; the Tour of Flanders. Evenepoel has yet to make the start in either race. The other path will take him to the Giro d&#8217;Italia, which Evenepoel has raced twice but never finished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the Giro stage schedule, which they&#8217;ll announce soon, we&#8217;ll be assessing internally and in consultation what&#8217;s feasible physically and in terms of training,&#8221; Evenepoel said. (The Giro route reveal is set for December 1.)<\/p>\n<p>Whichever path Evenepoel and his team choose to take, we can probably thank Tadej Poga\u010dar, at least in some small way.<\/p>\n<p>            This post is for subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"691778ec2ea785c376a78fdc\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/remco-evenepoel\/\" title=\"Remco Evenepoel\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f2946b remco-evenepoel\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing The double Olympic champ is broadening his horizons in the first part of the season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-263185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}