Following his victory as Flandrien of the Year on Tuesday night, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel has said✅ that his goal for 2025 will be to "just win a Grand Tour".

The Belgian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:won the title, awarded by Belgian newspaper , for the second time following his first win in 2022 after a 2024 season which saw him score double Olympic gold as well as a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France podium and a second world time trial title.

Following the ceremony, Evenep𒐪oel spoke to the paper to outline his goals and programme for the upcoming season.

"Last year, the Giro-Tour combination wasn't possible if you wanted to be in top form for the Olympics. Now we can consider it, but we 🅺will first wait and see what the course is like," Evenepo𝓀el said.

"If I ride the Giro, I will not ride Ardennes classics such as La Flèche Wallonne or Amstel Gold Race. I will never skip 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liège-Bastogne-Liège if I am healthy.

"[Paris-Roubaix] was an idea. But that was before I had tasted the Tour. I won't be riding the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Flanders next season. Milan-San Remo is still an opt๊ion, depending on whether you choose Tirreno-Adriatico or Paris-Nice. We haven't actually talked about spec♈ific programs yet. We have talked about ideas and goals."

Evenepoel stated he wants to "have the feeling of winning a Grand Tour again" follo💮wing his first at the 2022 Vuelta a España. He said that taking third at the 2024 Tour motivatedꦑ him to win another.

"That will be the focus," he said. "Last season, I dominated the time trials. I also noticed that I am among the better climbers, but there are two even better. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard are my new reference points. Everyone knows that my remaining goals are to win the Giro and ಞthe Tour, so I want to invest fully in that."

The 24-year-old spoke of reducing the gap to his two rivals next season, having finished nine minutes down on Pogačar and three minutes behind Vingegaard this July. He joked: "Let's hope that Pogačar doesn't make any progress" before noting that a realistic aim would be to bring the deficit down to five minutes.

Evenepoel said another aim will be to "dare to go for it on days when I feel really good." He singled out stage 17 at the 2024 Tour – the mountain stage to Superdévoluy where he gained 10 seconds on Pogačar and 12 on Vingegaard – as an example of a day he could've achieved more.

"In terms of feeling, it was my best day of 2024, even better than at the Olympics," Evenepoel said. "I was really good, but I was afraid t🅺o make a move. At 3km from the finish I rode away from🌄 those guys and that was a new situation. I saw that they didn't react and thought 'What is this?'

"I had a kind of panic: should I continue now or build in a reserve? That day I could have done more. If I get into that situation next year then I know t༒hat I have to give everything."

Evenepoel also echoed comments made by his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Soudal-QuickStep team boss Patr🎶ick Lefevere that the team as a whole will have to be ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚin top shape heading into the Tour in future.

"The Tour is not a toy. It is not easꦐy to ride the GC there. Everyone really has to be 110%. I am not going to say that it was not good this year, but I do think it coul❀d have been better," he said.

"I am talking about the form of certain riders. Patrick confirmed that. If we want to be competitive ꦆagainst teams like Visma-Lease a Bike and UAE Team Emirates, we have to collectively raise our level. But they know that. 🅘I also indicated shortly after the Tour that that was the big thing to work on. It is up to the riders and the coaches to get that right."

Evenepoel will be looking within himself and across his team as he seeks to add to his Vuelta victory, then. However, he won't seek out victories by hiding away from Pogačar, who was near-unbeatable in 2024.

"I'm not going to adjust my program to Tadej's," Evenepoel said. "I actually really like racing against Pogačar. Besides being a great champion, he’s also just a good guy.

"I think it's an honour to compete against him and to be able to race with him. I see it as a challengღe to try to beat him. I've already won races in which he was atꦛ the start. I hope that next season there will be one of those again every now and then."