Called to be a legendary cyclist since his breakthrough international emergence as a boy, Remco Evenepoel This Sunday he added another golden notch to his brilliant track record despite only being 24 years old: the Belgian won the world time trial title in Zurich (Switzerland) just a month and a half after becoming the first runner capable of achieving a double of Olympic gold in Games in Pariswhere he won the ‘chrono’ and the road test.
Evenepoel covered the 46.1 kilometers of the time trial in 53’01″98, at an extraordinary average speed of 52.043 km/h, and took the gold with just a 6’43 margin over Filippo Gannathe other great specialist and favorite for the title. Another Italian Edoardo Affinithe current European champion, completed the podium, took bronze, but now far from the intense battle between the Belgian and his compatriot, 54.44 behind the winner.
This is Remco’s fifth world time trial medal, which he once again validated Zurich’2024 the gold he won last year Glasgow’2023. a silver (Yorkshire’2019) and two coppers (Flanders’2021, Wollongong’2022) They also embellished his history.
After this new victory, Evenepoel will compete next Sunday in road world with many spotlights directed at him due to the possibility of him signing the same time trial-road double he achieved at the recent Paris Games. The Belgian is already wearing the rainbow jersey as the 2022 road world champion.
Remco, third last Tour de Franceovercame a bumpy start in the ‘chrono’ and was full of nerves due to a mechanical problem when he was ready for the exit ramp: the chain came off his bike and the mechanic put it back in place just 20 seconds into the departure .
The moment was so tense that the Belgian slapped the television cameraman showing how the mechanic works on Evenepoel’s bike, quickly forgetting the unexpected incident to give his best during the ‘time trial’.
Happy with his gold medal, Evenepoel (1.71 m and 61 kgs) joked on the podium with Ganna (1.93 m and 83 kgs) and Affinity (1.90 m and 80 kg), making him 20 centimeters taller and 20 kg heavier. The Italian ‘closet’, however, surrendered to the power that Remco was able to produce in a less bulky but equally stable chassis like marble.
Source: La Verdad
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