Remco Evenepoel showed off his new rainbow jersey at the 35th Binche-Chimay-Binche/Mémorial Frank Vandenbroucke, a 1.1-rated contest in Belgium on Tuesday. The current Vuelta a España and Liège-Bastogne-Liège champion was lively in the latter half of the 198.6 km contest, but took his leave of the peloton in the penultimate lap.
The riders had a couple of big circuits to race before five laps of a 16 km loop, each with a climb. There was a rise to the line in Binche.
The Canadian contingent was half Israel-Premier Tech–Guillaume Boivin, Derek Gee and Riley Pikrell–and half Human Powered Health–Adam De Vos, Pier-André Coté and Nickolas Zukowsky.
De Vos was in an early breakaway.
Once de Vos’s escape was brought back, Evenepoel made a couple of surges.
With 26 km remaining, the jersey having been paraded, the Vuelta a España champion Evenepoel dropped away.
Tony Gallopin was the sole escapee when he heard the bell just ahead of the peloton. A chase linked up Gallopin and with 5 km to race, it looked like the winner would come from the group containing Gallopin, Christophe Laporte and Philippe Gilbert. Laporte surged away with Uno-X’s Rasmus Tiller.
Laporte dumped his Norwegian breakmate on the cobbles in the final kilometre to take his fifth victory of the season. It was Gilbert’s last race on Belgian soil; he came sixth.
Evenepoel finished a few minutes later with compatriot and teammate Iljo Keisse.
2022 Binche-Chimay-Binche/Mémorial Frank Vandenbroucke
1) Christophe Laporte (France/Jumbo-Visma)
2) Rasmus Tiller (Norway/Uno-X)
3) Hugo Page (France/Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert)
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