Remco Evenepoel‘s best day yet at the 2025 Tour of Britain on Friday saw the Belgian star taking part in multiple late attacks and still have enough energy left to go for the sprint – only for a mechanical incident see him overtaken by a large group of rivals within sight of the stage 4 finish.
“I briefly had a gear shifting issue, causing my chain to go onto the outer chainring,” he explained after the finish in comments reported by Nieuwsblad.
“That caused me to lose momentum and I got swamped.”
After his attack at 25 kilometres to go and then being in the thick of the action in the finale, Evenepoel finally finished 19th on the stage, won by with a late lunge for the line by France’s Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ).
However, after coming into the final kilometre in third place, the mechanical involving his chain left him trailing at a crucial moment.
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