Not too long ago topped Time Trial World and double Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel will likely be lining up on the Coppa Bernocchi on Monday trying to repeat his victory on the one-day Italian race, within the lead-up for the ultimate European WorldTour race of the season, Il Lombardia subsequent weekend.
After being lively early within the prestigious Giro dell’Emilia yesterday, the Soudal-QuickStep rider initiated the transfer that was countered by Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates) who then took off for a longe-range solo flyer to victory. Surprisingly, Evenepoel who appeared to be the most certainly rider to problem the world champion, pulled out of the race with round 25km to go.
The depressing moist circumstances triggered particles to settle in his eye, and a video posted confirmed his workforce workers making an attempt to scrub his left eye on the end line.
“Issues didn’t go as deliberate for us in Emilia, however that’s biking, and this solely motivates us much more for Monday,” stated Soudal Fast-Step sports activities director Davide Bramati in a workforce launch.
“Up to now three seasons, we gained twice and racked up a complete of 4 podium finishes in Bernocchi, so it goes with out saying it is a race we like loads and the place we hope to be once more in competition for a superb consequence, on what will likely be a demanding and fairly selective parcours.”
Three years in the past at Coppa Bernocchi, after spending all the day within the break, Evenepoel attacked from 31km to go, dropped his companions and soloed to what was at the moment his first victory in a one-day race on Italian soil.
The 174.3km Coppa Bernocchi begins and ends with a flat part in Legnano, with probably the most difficult a part of the race being seven laps of a hilly circuit that features the Piccolo Stelvio climb (1.7km at 5.8%).
Evenepoel must cope with Primož Roglič (Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Marc Hirschi (UAE Workforce Emirates). The Vuelta a España winner will likely be taking the beginning for the primary time in his profession, whereas Hirschi, has been on a tear, taking six wins in only a month and a half, and his ninth general victory this yr. On Sunday, the Swiss rider outsprinted his breakaway rivals to safe victory within the Coppa Agostoni-Giro delle Brianze in Lissone.
The Coppa Bernocchi is the third occasion within the quick however intense interval of racing throughout Italy main as much as the ultimate Monument of the yr, Il Lombardia.
