One blister, two bicycle changes, four days of diarrhea, a lot of frustration and yet silver: the road ride of Remco Evenepoel went

Also an hour and a half after the World Cup, Remco Evenepoel still laughed green. It was not because he has been searing green water since Thursday – free to Tom Boonen – but because of his first silver World Cup medal on the road. In the head of the Belgian leader, a crushed saddle and a double bicycle change cost him the chance of a second world title. “I could have followed Pogacar’s attack without bad luck.” A reconstruction of his eventful road ride: where does that black drinking can come and that black bike comes from?

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