‘The real Tour de France will start in the Pyrenees’ – Remco Evenepoel adapts quickly to cycling’s biggest stage

One week in, Remco Evenepoel seems to be taking well to this Tour de France business. It should hardly come as a surprise. A man whose every pedal stroke has been analysed to the nth degree since he was a teenager might be well equipped to cope with the unblinking scrutiny of cycling’s grandest stage.

When Evenepoel met with the press via a video call on Monday’s first Tour de France rest day in Troyes, he was asked the age-old question that gets lobbed in the direction of every debutant on this race, namely to outline what he had liked and disliked about his first steps on Planet Tour.