Evenepoel close to a second win in Catalunya

Evenepoel close to a second win in Catalunya

Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) went head-to-head for the fourth time this week at the oldest race in the Iberian Peninsula, on the beast of a climb called Le Port (8.4km, 8.8%) – which was tackled at the end of the 176.6km stage five.

Victorious Wednesday atop La Molina, Evenepoel entered the day tied on time at the top of the general classification, and Soudal Quick-Step acted like a team on a mission, pulling the entire stage and bringing back the breakaway on the lower slopes of the special-category ascent. The World Champion waited for the last five kilometers to show his cards, launching a powerful surge that distanced all but one rider, his GC rival.

Remco and Roglic continued together, trading attacks until 300 meters to go, when the Slovenian ramped up the pace and gained a couple of meters and won the stage ahead of Remco, who now finds himself trailing by ten seconds in the standings ahead of the weekend’s two stages.

“Maybe I shouldn’t have countered. I started my sprint early and I think this was a big mistake. It’s not the end of the world, on the contrary, a valuable lesson from which I will learn going into the next races. We’ll continue fighting here, we have two more stages left, and we’ll try to do our best”, said Remco, who remains the best young rider of the race.

 

Photo credit: ©David Ramos / Getty Images

Race details

1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
4:27:41
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:06
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
0:12
4 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
0:28
5 Rigoberto Urán Urán
EF Education-EasyPost
0:44
6 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
0:47
7 Mikel Landa Meana
Bahrain - Victorious
0:56
8 Michael Woods
Israel - Premier Tech
0:56
9 Jai Hindley
BORA - hansgrohe
1:04
10 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
1:15
65 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
6:41
79 Fausto Masnada
Soudal - Quick Step
10:04
85 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
10:04
86 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
10:04
140 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
19:01
141 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
19:01
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
21:29:25
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
0:10
3 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
1:02
4 Mikel Landa Meana
Bahrain - Victorious
1:50
5 Marc Soler Giménez
UAE Team Emirates
1:50
6 Michael Woods
Israel - Premier Tech
1:54
7 Giulio Ciccone
Trek - Segafredo
1:57
8 Jai Hindley
BORA - hansgrohe
2:02
9 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
2:23
10 Rigoberto Urán Urán
EF Education-EasyPost
2:44
30 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
11:25
56 Jan Hirt
Soudal - Quick Step
25:47
60 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
27:50
65 Fausto Masnada
Soudal - Quick Step
31:30
87 Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal - Quick Step
41:55
124 Pieter Serry
Soudal - Quick Step
57:44
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
32 pt
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
26 pt
3 Giulio Ciccone
Trek - Segafredo
14 pt
4 Kaden Groves
Alpecin-Deceuninck
10 pt
5 Simone Petilli
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
8 pt
6 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
6 pt
7 Héctor Carretero
Equipo Kern Pharma
5 pt
8 Rune Herregodts
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
4 pt
9 Roger Adrià Oliveras
Equipo Kern Pharma
4 pt
10 Ide Schelling
BORA - hansgrohe
4 pt
1 Primož Roglič
Jumbo-Visma
54 pt
2 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
46 pt
3 Guillaume Martin
Cofidis
46 pt
4 Simone Petilli
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
37 pt
5 Giulio Ciccone
Trek - Segafredo
32 pt
6 João Almeida
UAE Team Emirates
28 pt
7 Maxim Van Gils
Lotto Dstny
20 pt
8 Richard Carapaz Montenegro
EF Education-EasyPost
18 pt
9 Filippo Zana
Team Jayco AlUla
16 pt
10 Mikel Landa Meana
Bahrain - Victorious
15 pt
17 Louis Vervaeke
Soudal - Quick Step
10 pt
1 Remco Evenepoel
Soudal - Quick Step
21:29:35
2 Cian Uijtdebroeks
BORA - hansgrohe
2:13
3 Lenny Martinez
Groupama - FDJ
3:06
4 Lennert Van Eetvelt
Lotto Dstny
5:08
5 Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal - Quick Step
11:15
6 Oscar Onley
Team DSM
15:48
7 Matthew Riccitello
Israel - Premier Tech
18:39
8 Hugo Toumire
Cofidis
21:09
9 Raúl García Pierna
Equipo Kern Pharma
26:46
10 Finn Fisher-Black
UAE Team Emirates
28:58
1 UAE Team Emirates 64:34:29
2 EF Education-EasyPost 7:07
3 BORA - hansgrohe 9:40
4 Bahrain - Victorious 12:06
5 Movistar Team 12:10
6 AG2R Citroën Team 17:08
7 Jumbo-Visma 19:51
8 Cofidis 28:16
9 Soudal - Quick Step 30:57
10 Israel - Premier Tech 32:34

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