As the dust settled on the European Championships elite men’s road race and another Tadej Pogačar exhibition, with 31 seconds still separating them at the line, silver medallist Remco Evenepoel could only concede that he needs to improve -and this despite the rest of the field being completely blown away by the top two finishers.
Pogačar began to apply maximum pressure with 76km to go. Only Evenepoel could follow initially, but soon he started to look over his shoulder, and then he had to pull the pin. The watts were too high and he wouldn’t see Pogačar’s rainbow jersey again, until arriving in Guilherand-Granges 75km later.
“I think the wattage data from this race will be very interesting for my coach to analyze. He’ll then have to decide what kind of training I should do. Because if I want to beat Pogačar in the future, I have to improve.”
With that goal of closing the gap to Pogačar at the forefront of their ambitions, Red Bull are already on the case and with growing confidence that it isn’t a fool’s errand. That belief is one notably held by his former national coach, Sven Vanthourenhout, who will be one of several new performance staff members at Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe in the coming season.
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