Vainqueurs à eux deux de trois des quatre dernières éditions de la Clasica San Sebastian, Julian Alaphilippe (2018) et Remco Evenepoel (2019 et 2022) figurent dans la sélection communiquée par la Soudal Quick-Step pour la course de samedi ! Tandis que le natif de Saint-Amand-Montrond sort d'un Tour de France décevant - même s'il a montré un état d'esprit irréprochable - le champion du monde va reprendre la compétition après plus d'un mois entièrement consacré à l'entraînement. "La Clasica San Sebastian est une course que j'aime", explique Remco Evenepoel du Wolfpack lors d'une conférence de presse en Visio ce vendredi.
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00:00 Should be okay. I think I always respond well on the altitude camp. So
00:04 I'm always
00:08 Going out of altitude camps with a quite good shape a lot of freshness also, so I think I
00:13 Hope to have a bit of a copy paste of last year's shape
00:17 But of course with the World Championships
00:20 Being there next week already it should be a bit
00:25 Better shape than it was last year at this moment because it's a world championship
00:30 But then again, yeah, I need to keep the shape quite high for the world that is coming as well. So
00:34 Yeah, I mean we didn't have a lot of let's say information about how the shape is at the moment
00:41 But I think the feeling is okay
00:43 Weight and all that stuff is on point. So I think it should be okay for tomorrow and for next two weeks
00:50 Watching and last tour de France and
00:55 Watching the level of being a garden and bogatyr especially I was wondering in your opinion. Well
01:02 It's a very difficult question
01:06 We will never know we will know next year probably
01:12 But if I have to believe the calculations
01:15 etc from the watts per kilo and stuff like that, it's
01:20 Numbers have also been pushing already. But of course, it's day after day. So I think they achieved an unbelievable
01:28 an unbelievable level this year an
01:31 incredible level so
01:33 Yeah, and now it's up to me to have one year of work to
01:37 Put big steps forward to come close to those two
01:41 crazy guys
01:44 Super good riders. So I hope to be up there with them next year
01:48 It's your last race in the rainbow jersey. How does it feel? How do you feel about racing last time?
01:55 And that's beautiful shirt
01:57 It's sad because it's too early. No
01:59 beginning of
02:02 I mean we're end of July and it's already the last race in the rainbow. It's a pity
02:06 But yeah, I think there's a nice race coming next week to try and take the jersey again
02:11 But I will do my best. I mean, I will try to enjoy as much as possible. So Sebastian is a
02:17 Really important race to me. I know if I can win tomorrow. I'm I
02:22 think shared record holder of the race, so
02:26 yeah, it's a big motivation also for tomorrow and
02:29 Yeah, I just want to try to enjoy the last hours in competition in the jersey
02:36 but of course, I I hope deep inside of me that it's not the last race in my life in
02:43 Jersey, but of course for this year
02:46 I've had a pretty good season in the rainbow actually eight victories
02:50 some nice victories national
02:53 Champion in the rainbow which is special. So I think I can look back on a very beautiful year in the rainbow
03:00 Looking at the two courses do you have do you think you have more chances to win again?
03:06 What champ ships on road or time trial? I?
03:12 Think I have a chance on both. I think the TT is long and not super technical which
03:17 will
03:19 Mean which my idol will help me in
03:22 And then the the road race is pretty technical but it's a super long race
03:28 The local lap is like I said a lot of corners a lot of up and down but the race will be
03:37 Close to seven hours. I think which will put a lot of fatigue in the legs and where I think
03:42 That the
03:46 attackers or a breakaway will have a benefit so
03:50 Yeah, I think
03:53 It should suit me both
03:55 But we'll see I mean
03:58 We have a very strong team with the with the Belgian team. We have different cards to play with
04:05 Jasper Waltz and myself and also
04:07 Some other guys you never know if we have to adapt a plan because of crashes
04:13 Bad luck, whatever we have a lot of strong guys that can try to win the race, but I think
04:19 Yeah, I think it's
04:23 It's gonna be a special race. Let's hope the rain will stay away. But of course
04:27 So we'll see but I I have a
04:33 Good view on both of the races
04:35 Yeah, we speak a lot about the future of the team
04:41 It's not too difficult for you to stay concentrated and focus on your on your objective
04:48 I have actually it's funny because
04:51 From the outside you guys know more than I do myself. So it's
04:55 It's some things that are going around that I'm even not aware of myself
04:59 and also within my
05:03 Entourage and my family doesn't even know about all those things. So it's things going around that I don't even know about
05:10 which is pretty special but
05:12 Yeah, I think mentally I'm strong enough to focus on what I have to do on the summer. It is coming and I
05:19 Mean, there's no reasons to be unhappy here
05:22 So, yeah, it's
05:26 All a bit of let's say small bullshit that is going around. Sorry for the word. I didn't know a better word to
05:32 to see.