{"id":45436,"date":"2025-08-05T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45436\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:17:08","slug":"coming-back-at-yall-remco-evenepoel-returns-to-training-for-first-time-since-tour-de-france-heartbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45436\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cComing back at y\u2019all\u201d &#8211; Remco Evenepoel returns to training for first time since Tour de France heartbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/remco-evenepoel\" title=\"Remco Evenepoel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a> has returned to training for the first time since his withdrawal from the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a>, marking a small but symbolic step forward after a physically and emotionally draining month for the 25-year-old Belgian.On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/strava.com\/athletes\/revenepoel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Belgian posted a 105-kilometre ride on Strava<\/a> \u2014 his first since leaving the Tour de France on Stage 14 whilst sitting 3rd in the general classification, on course for a second successive podium finish \u2014 captioned with a defiant \u201cComing back at y\u2019all\u201d and lyrics from French rapper Werenoi: \u201cIf only you knew how much time we\u2019ve wasted. In trying to recover it, we\u2019ve been frustrated by many things.\u201d The words struck a chord, echoing the frustration and fatigue that ultimately forced Evenepoel to step off the bike three weeks ago.Despite riding into the second week of the Tour de France with a stage win, days in the white jersey and a provisional podium position, Evenepoel\u2019s early form masked deeper issues. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/soudal-quick-step\" title=\"Soudal - Quick-Step\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soudal &#8211; Quick-Step<\/a> leader later revealed that he was suffering from the compounded effects of a broken rib, lingering fatigue from an off-season crash, and a sinus infection that worsened after his abandonment. &#8220;I felt completely empty,&#8221; he admitted in a candid post-Tour message. &#8220;It was the right decision to stop. For the first time, I really listened to my body.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel has returned to training for the first time since his withdrawal from the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-45436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45436","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=45436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}