With this summer's Tour set to be one of the most star studded in a long time however, Evenepoel could benefit from the pressures of the pre-race favourite tag being elsewhere. "I do think he will be under slightly less pressure than he would be on a Giro d’Italia or on a Vuelta because of
Jonas Vingegaard, who is showing how solid he is on the Tour de France, so he has to show that respect,” Contador explains.
“I think he will have less pressure. When the odds come out, we will see Vingegaard as the favourite, it won’t be Remco. And that could be of benefit to him. It could lessen the pressure although the pressure he puts on himself will probably be greater than anything else external," the Spaniard continues. “So I think it will be a nice challenge and I think it is important that Remco knows what it is to race the Tour de France because it is an important race to know.”