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Remco Evenepoel: I won’t pass up opportunity to extend Vuelta a España lead

Remco Evenepoel: I won’t pass up opportunity to extend Vuelta a España lead


In the pages of Het Nieuwsblad on Friday morning, QuickStep-AlphaVinyl manager Patrick Lefevere suggested it might be a poisoned chalice. Outside the team bus in Camargo, directeur sportif Klaas Lodewyck even entertained the idea of giving it away. Try telling that to Remco Evenepoel, who paired his red jersey with matching helmet, glasses and face mask when he reported for duty ahead of stage 7 of the Vuelta a España.

Lefevere and Lodewyck are, perhaps understandably, in the business of downplaying expectations, but Evenepoel hardly seemed burdened by the thought of leading a Grand Tour for the first time in his career as he moved through the mixed zone on Friday morning.

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