A normal training outing or a targeted reconnaissance? At the moment it is not known, but it is a question of Remco Evenepoel e di Tour of Flandersthe question that arose after what happened on Sunday 28 December is attracting a lot of interest. The Belgian champion, who with the start of the new season will become a rider of the Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe it was in fact spotted on the walls of the Ronde during a training ride. It could very well be a casual destination, also because Evenepoel doesn’t live very far from that area, but the fact that there was a future teammate with him, Gianni Vermeerschand two upcoming sporting directors of Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe increases the weight of the conjectures.
According to what was reported by Nieuwsblad, the “patrol” of the German team, with Sven Vanthorenhout e Klaas Lodewyck as technicians, she would have been spotted on both the Paterberg and the Oude Kwaremont, two of the most important walls on the Tour of Flanders route. The second Monument of the year, which is scheduled for Sunday 6 April and which has never seen the bi-Olympic champion of Paris 2024 at the start so far, was not even included in the program that Evenepoel and his new team made public a few weeks ago.
It therefore seems very unlikely that the Belgian will be able to make his debut there this year, also given the words spoken a few days ago by another sporting director of Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe, Zakkari Dempster: “We need to make the best possible program for Remco and at this time we don’t think that participating in the Tour of Flanders can contribute to the goodness of that program“. However, a similar “display of forces” for a simple workout can still suggest something different…
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