Cycling - Tour de Lombardie 2024 - Remco Evenepoel : "I was dying on the last climb... it shows how outstanding Pogacar is"
Ce samedi, Remco Evenepoel a signé son meilleur résultat sur le Tour de Lombardie en prenant la deuxième place à Côme. S'il n'a rien pu faire, comme attendu, face à l'extraterrestre Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), qui l'a relégué à plus de 3 minutes à l'issue des 255 kilomètres de course, le double champion olympique de Paris 2024 a pris le dessus sur tous ses autres adversaires, et notamment sur Enric Mas (Movistar Team) et Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny), avec qui il avait franchi le sommet de la Colma del Sormano avant de les lâcher dans la descente. Après l'arrivée, le Belge de la Soudal Quick-Step s'est montré satisfait de sa performance.
Video : @Il_Lombardia / Il Lombardia
Video : @Il_Lombardia / Il Lombardia
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00:38This morning you said that being realistic you were racing for second place. So do you consider yourself a winner somehow?
00:46Yeah, honestly, it feels a bit like a personal victory. I think everybody knows
00:51the last time that I raced from bergamo to coma how it ended and
00:55now finishing as a
00:57best of the rest is uh, yeah feels like a personal victory and
01:01It makes me it makes me really proud
01:04i'm not gonna say emotional because i'm quite over the moment of uh, four years ago, but I think it's uh,
01:09Yeah, I mean i'm uh, I need to be honest and it uh, it feels really good to be to be second today
01:15It wasn't a surprise that um today pogacar attacked on the sarmano
01:19Um, what was happening in between you guys at that time?
01:24uh, I mean, um
01:26We kind of knew and
01:28Kind of predicted how and where that I would go
01:31We knew that the three kilometers after the the bridge where I crashed four years ago was the hardest of the of the climb
01:37And that's also where you went. So I think um
01:40Yeah
01:40I just did my own pace to the top to to try and take some advantage on the others and try to
01:46To to kind of limit the time loss to towards that day
01:49And I knew the descent pretty well
01:51So I just went flat out in the descent and I dropped the others so
01:55And then it was like a time trial towards the finish line. And uh,
01:58Yeah, I was actually dying on san fermo in the last few kilometers
02:02but I think um, yeah, the the gap was made by then and uh,
02:06Just had to consider so it was a bit of uh, yeah one v one and I think everybody saw again
02:12Who is the best rider of the moment? And uh, yeah just a deserved winner of today
02:17Being on the podium does it give you the confirmation that uh, this is a race you have to win. Yeah
02:23I mean, it's let's say one of my first good results in italy. It's uh, it uh, it feels good to to
02:30To do the race without any problems without any bad luck and just with a good feeling
02:34Uh, yeah, i'm just a bit unlucky that there's a great phenomenon ahead of me
02:39um, but yeah, like you say it's uh, it just gives some confidence and uh,
02:43Good morale to to try and come here with a better shape and try to go for the win
02:48Um, so yeah, it's a perfect way to end my season with and now just try to enjoy it
02:53Italy has many more races for you to come back. Thank you very much. Thank you