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Time to celebrate for Remco Evenepoel as he adds Worlds title to Vuelta victory

Time to celebrate for Remco Evenepoel as he adds Worlds title to Vuelta victory


As Remco Evenepoel sat on the UCI Road World Championships media room stage in Wollongong, he recounted the big goals he dreamed of when he started out as a professional rider – Liège-Bastogne-Liège, a Grand Tour and a World Championships. Lofty targets but at the age of 22, and in one season nonetheless, he has now achieved all three.  

Evenepoel may have looked tired after he hightailed it straight from Spain to Australia after his Vuelta a España victory, but that triumph also delivered far more than fatigue. After earning the first Belgian Grand Tour victory since 1978, even a nation of cycling fanatics could neither ask nor expect anything more – the World Championships was a race he went into without pressure

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