Belgium’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel lived up to expectations and more on stage 1 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana as the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:QuickStep-AlphaVinyl star blasted away from the opposition for victory in his ಌfirst race of the season in Spain.
Roughly a kilometre from the 🅘summit of the tougher-than-anticipated Torralba del Pinar climb, Evenepoel surged out of a shattering front group and quickly established a gap of 15 seconds. That proved to be more than enough to claim his and his team’s first win of 2022 and to place himself at the head of the overall classification.
As Bahrain Victorious leader Matej Mohoric, himself a noteworthy ninth on the stage after some impressively hard work by his squad mid-way on the climb, told Cyclingnews afterw♑ards, “now he’s the man to beat.”
Just as the Giro d’Italia last year saw a mass descent of Belgian journalists to follow, this year’s Valenciana has seen a notable spike in interest in the Flemish media, with Het Nieuwsblad sure🦂ly dedicating what is a record three pages to its presentation of the Spanish stage race.
As for Evenepoel himself, resplendent in the yellow jersey of leader 🌼as he sat perched on a stool for intervi🎃ews in the small media tent next to the finish, the Belgian said he had no idea of what to expect at the end of the stage.
“I really didn’♐t know what the final would be like because we didn’t know [what] the climb was like,” Evenepoel told journalists.
“The GPS and Veloviewer said it was a bit flat in some parts” - as was true roughly half-way up - "but in the end it didn’t really feel flat. I knew that the𝄹 part where the attacks started just before the top was the hardest bit of it all.”
Rarꦏely out of the top 10 on the opening phases of a climb with a bewildering variety of gradients ranging from a slight downhill to around 10 per cent in places, Evenepoel said he took encouragement f𓆏rom feeling so comfortable early on the ascent. But later on even he suffered a bit with the gap rising fast to 15 seconds, and then staying the same all the way to the finish.
“It was quite hard to keep the pace goi🅷ng in the final because I went all out in that attack,” Evenepoel explained. “We knew that if you had a gap at the top then they wou🌠ldn’t get back easily on the plateau and top.
“So I just went all out, all out. I could really feel my legs burning. But the team supported and trusted me to finish it off and I’m really 🐼happy I can finish it off with a nice victory.&rdquo♎;
QuickStep-AlphaVinyl were cautiously optimistic about Evenepoel’s chances of be﷽ing - as one Flemish journalist made sure Evenepoel realised on his pre-race press conference on Tuesday - the first Belgian to win the Co🐷munitat Valenciana race since one Eddy Merckx more than half a century ago.
“It’s not over, there’s still four days left,” sports director Tom Steels told Cyclingnews. “It’s never over, eh? This is cycling, and there’s still a hardও climb the day after tomorr💃ow (Friday). He’s riding well, so we’ll see.”
Steels confirmed Evenepoel’s explanation of the final climb by saying in the team meeting beforehand they had discussed his c🧜hances and Evenepoel had been confident, but “that says a lot and it doesn't say anything. And it was a very hard race. We were hoping for a win, but you never know how the competition is going to be until the legs speak.
“The whole team controlled the race well throughout the day, together with Movistar🌄 and that’s good to give us all confidence. But now Friday is the key day.”
