Remco Evenepoel is still finding his top form following an off-season training crash and a late start to the season. Currently racing at the Tour de Romandie, his first stage race of the year, the double Olympic champion has shown encouraging progress with several top-10 finishes but admitted that, when it comes to climbing, he had “a lot of work to do” in his revised build-up to the Tour de France.
“It was OK. I still have a lot of work to do, but it was OK. We couldn’t hold the pace, I think, halfway up the climb somewhere, and then we tried to do our own pace,” Evenepoel explained his performance following stage 4 at the Tour de Romandie that finished atop Thyon 2000, where he was supporting his Soudal-QuickStep teammate Junior Lecerf.
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