the belgian Remco Evenepoel gave seconds this Saturday with the Slovenian primoz roglic at stage 14 of the Back to Spain, but he managed to hold the red leader’s shirt for one more day.
The Slovenian, three-time winner of the Vuelta a España, who left Montoro 2 minutes and 31 seconds behind Evenepoel in the general classification, managed to shave 52 seconds off the Belgian (48 at the finish line, plus four bonus seconds), suffered in the hard climb to the top of the Pandera, with ramps of more than 11 percent.
“I didn’t have my best legs today. I couldn’t accelerate when Roglic left. I still have an advantage in the general, there is no worry. I hope it was my bad day in the three weeks of racing,” Evenepoel said at the finish.
“I am calm. Tomorrow a new stage arrives, I know it, and I will try to regulate the effort”, he added.
This was the fall of Remco Evenepoel on Thursday
It should be remembered that Evenepoel suffered a crash on Thursday, in stage 12 of the race, but that day he did not lose seconds. However, an image circulating on social networks raises the question of whether this accident left any sequel.
The Twitter account Lovers of cycling revealed an image in which Remco is seen with a bandage under his uniform, covering the hip area where he received the blow after Thursday’s fall.
I think Evenepoel is not a bad day, he hurt himself in his fall and they want to hide it. If you look closely, he wears a kind of bandage under his hip and in the TV images he tried to hide a certain limp pic.twitter.com/TNz5SlNPva
– Cycling lovers (@amantes_cycling) September 3, 2022
“I think Evenepoel is not a bad day, he hurt himself in his fall and they want to hide it. If you look closely, he wears a kind of bandage under his hip and in the TV images he tried to hide a certain limp,” he writes. in CM of that account.
However, Remco himself uploaded an image after the stage in which he gives a part of tranquility.
“Hard day at the office, but tomorrow is another day,” Evenepoel wrote, alongside a picture of him recovering after the stage.
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