Milano-Sanremo, Tour of Flanders... Remco Evenepoel's 2025 schedule includes new goals and Olympic Champion will soon make Tour of Britain debut
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Remco Evenepoel has achieved everything that he could in the time-trials. Olympic, World, European and national champion alongside TT victories in all Grand Tours, it's time for new goals. The Tour de France is an obvious one after he thrived in this year's edition, but he will also make his debut in the Tour of Flanders and Milano-Sanremo next season!
This is not a rumour but rather a vocal confirmation from none other than Soudal - Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere: "The idea is for Remco to go to Milan-Sanremo and also to the Tour of Flanders in 2025," Lefevere said in words to DH. This marks a major step in Evenepoel's career, who has thus far done very well in the time-trials, hilly classics and is seemingly making successful transformation into an absolute world-class Grand Tour rider, only being beaten by Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France. Perhaps due to inspiration from Tadej Pogacar's choices, or maybe just the natural evolution for the Belgian, he will be making his debut in big races next year that he could target in the future.
This year, the Tour of Britain and Il Lombardia are still in his schedule, despite the impressive summer that he's been having.
Having Pogacar win the Tour of Flanders and come close to doing the same in Sanremo is also evidence that the spring classics are now no longer races to be battled exclusively between the traditional specialists. Flanders, specially, is not mostly decided on the short climbs. Evenepoel, twice a winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, could do very well in them, specially as Flanders becomes less tactical and more a matter of climbing legs in recent years.
"In addition, he should participate in one of Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico and also take part in one of the Northern Classics that precede the Ronde. It could be the Dwars door Vlaanderen or the E3 Harelbeke. Then, he will be back at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, before doing the Tour de France," Lefevere pointed out as the likely schedule of the World and Olympic time-trial champion for the upcoming season.
"Honestly, I expected it (the Olympic title he achieved this Saturday, ed.). He is someone who leaves nothing to chance. After the podium at the Tour, he had little time left at the party we had organized as a team in Antibes and he immediately started training again. He has a perfect lifestyle," Lefevere argues. "And I think he could be one of the favorites for the road race of the Games".
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- lol yeahmij08-11-2026
- I know, their headlines can be so misleading. Pidcock had a great season with 5 wins. and some solid 2nds. no reason to take away from that with a fake headline.mij08-11-2026
- You can clearly see the the posture change from slightly sitting to again out of the saddle while changing of gears in the video of the sprintabstractengineer08-11-2026
- He has already beaten Pogi twice in the TDF. the achievement is over. He cannot beat Pogi now and he only has a few years left at the top. Win Giro and compete in the TDF, maximise palmares.abstractengineer08-11-2026
- Just looked again at the photo. Yeah I stand by that. If MS had fallen over in Brands direction I don’t even think she would have hit her. You must be a UCI race commissioner. I’ll be sure to check my sock height should I ever see you on a ride. Looks like everyone else on here sees what I see.mij08-11-2026
- I said looking at the photo it doesn’t appear she deviated. Chill out, not stating my word is the final judgement. Just commenting that based on the photo I don’t see it. And BTW the Dutch coach even said she didn’t impede her.mij08-11-2026
- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
- How can you use a photo post incident to judge the incident itself (which is not hard to find if you’re prepared to invest the same amount of time in searching as writing that comment? It’s harsh but technically right even though this or worse is not always sanctioned in every race. The two things that went against MS (who unfortunately for her would still have won without making her mistake) are that it was not a bunch sprint where there could have been an overlooked incident or mitigating circumstances explaining a deviation. Everything was focused on just those 2, Schreiber was riding beautifully balanced which made her sudden deviation look unnatural stroke as if it could have been in some part intentional whilst she was slowly drifting ever closer towards the barrier to a point that would have reached obstruction level. In her defence, it might have been the realisation she was heading towards that that made her react suddenly and caused the deviation involuntarily. In any case, congratulations to her for the ride of her life, in people’s minds she will be credited for it.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- Good boy Obviously doesn’t need that much help dealing with pressure, as some have suggested. Wiser (and humbler) than many far further along their careers. About offering him the moon, recently someone came up with an explanation of the downfall of a football great (either referring to Maradona or Portuguese Ronaldo) saying it was kind of normal after coming back from the moon, except that others, including some who actually did go to the moon like Armstrong (Neil in case anyone is too switched off to realise) didn’t go through any of the same motions after coming back. A lot of how you deal with situations has less to do with the situation than with your character.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
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🔥 @EvenepoelRemco has just completed the ITT quest at only 24 🙌 Photo: @GettySport
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