Tour-Mitfavorit Remco Evenepoel has to give up on the 14th stage of the Tour de France 2025. He later speaks about the worrying – and continues to puzzle.
At the Col du Tourmalet was over. Remco Evenepoel fought on the climb, the mood was written on his face. During the climb, he decided to give up.
“It is possible to have a bad day every now and then. But three bad days in a row are nothing I normally experience, so it was the best option,” he said to reporters in front of the team bus.
It was then sports director Klaas Lodewyck, who advised him to exit, said even Evenepoel.
The 25-year-old said that he couldn’t call many details about the backgrounds around his tour of the tour.
Evenepoel remembers “terribly bad winter”
“No idea. I can’t say anything about that. We’ll be researching and seeing what happens. Everyone knows that I had a terribly bad winter. But we will all take a look at it again. Maybe something is not okay with my body. At that time I can’t necessarily say something,” said evenpoel.
He then put a thesis in the room. “Basically, I couldn’t do any training. I couldn’t deal with the intensity. Tiredness, my body is just not good enough this year, everything could be … I can’t set it on one thing.”
As a full disaster, he didn’t want to tick off the tour.
“I won a stage and was in third place for a long time. To this day, it actually looked pretty good, but today it just didn’t work out. I could have easily ended in the group and continue, but who knows, maybe I just stay with my bad feeling and don’t drive in September either.”
His German rival Florian Lipowitz meanwhile took third place and the leadership in the youth classification. He wished the Belgian a speedy recovery. “It is always super sad when someone leaves the tour, especially someone like Remco who was a candidate for white and third place. I wish him all the best and that hopefully he would be doing better soon,” said the Ulmer.