168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Soudal-QuickStep are opting for a low-key approach in this year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Romandie despite fielding 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel in the Swiss WorldTour stage race, which starts this Tuesday in the mountain villa♓ge of Saint-Imier with a 3.4km prol💦ogue time trial.
The Belgian rider confirmed last month he would be taking part in the six-day stage race for the first time since 2019, as part of his revised build-up for the summer following his off-season training crash ☂and la🐈te start to the 2025 season.
Romandie💫 will be Evenepoel's first stage race since the Tour of Britain last year. In his previous participat𓄧ion in Romandie back in 2019, when he was still finding his feet as a very young pro, he finished 76th overall.
Other challengers for Romandie include dওefending champion Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers) and 2022 winner Aleksandr Vlasov (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and France's up-and-coming climber Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious).
Other notable figures include talented 19-year-old British sprinter Matthew Brennan (Vimsa-Lease a Bike), Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) who won Roman🐽die back in 2021, Stefan Kung (Groupama-FDJ), a winner of three stages in one of his top home country events, and Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).
After the usual broad variety of rolling stages for the first four days, the major ascent to the Mount Thion summit finish on stage 5 is certain to see the first important GC selection in this year's Tour de Romandie. But the final 17.1 kilometre time trial thr⛎ough Geneva next Sunday May 4 will likely be the deciding factor in the overall outcome.
As a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:double World Time Trial Champion, on paper the🌠 ever-ambitious ꦿEvenepoel's options look to be very good in a race bookended by time trials, with the second a hilly race against the clock through the city of Geneva.
However the te🦋am notably played down their GC options, saying they were only looking for stage wins and🧔 would take any other targets on the day-by-day.
“Romandie is one of the most important stage races of the spring and we’d like to get some good results there before moving our attention to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia," said Soudal Quick-Step sport🐷s director Dr🍸ies Devenyns.
"Remco will be the team’s leader, and he’ll have at his siꦏde a strong and motivated squad to support his comeback. The parcours comes with plenty of challenges, and the weather could also play a part, so it will be a hard week, but we believe in ourselves. We would like to win a stage there, but the main plan is to take it one day at a time and see how things go."
Evenepoel began his return to racing with 🦩a spectacular sprint victory against Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) in Brabantse Pijl and he was also a key player in Amstel Gold, where he finished third.
Speaking after a below-expecta๊tions performance at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, where he finished 59th, Evenepoel said "I realize that I have to take it day by day. If it's a good one, I have to take advantage of it. If it's a bad one, I just have to accept that. Now I have to stay calm and keep working."
