The boss of the Quick Step team confirmed, on Wednesday, in an interview with RTBF, that the world champion would not participate in the Tour de France, after his abandonment of the Giro.
Now there is no longer any doubt. After the abandonment of Remco Evenepoel, following his positive test for Covid-19 on Sunday, the director of the Quick Step team Patrick Lefevere rejected, Wednesday May 17, the hypothesis of seeing his leader on the roads of the Tour from France in July.
“No, he will not be in the Tour de France. We are not going to change his program, it would not be very intelligentsaid the boss of the team to the RTBF. The best for him is to recover, to relax. We will then do the post-covid health examinations and redo a program. There will be the Worlds in early August, but regarding a possible participation in the Vuelta, it’s too early to talk about it. he explained.
According to the plan planned by the manager of Soudal Quick-Step, it will be necessary to wait until 2024 for Remco Evenepoel to discover the Grande Boucle.
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