Remco Evenepoel is ready to journey the Lloyds Financial institution Tour of Britain Males in September, Biking Weekly understands.
The Belgian is presently in France on the Paris Olympics the place he received gold within the particular person time trial final weekend. Evenepoel can be set to function within the elite males’s highway race on Saturday the place he will likely be a favorite for gold as soon as extra.
Sources instructed Biking Weekly that Evenepoel’s subsequent race after that will then be the Tour of Britain Males in early September. Soudal Fast-Step are anticipated to be considered one of a number of WorldTour groups on the beginning line in Kelso within the Scottish Borders on 3 September.
A spokesperson for Evenepoel’s staff confirmed that the race was being thought of as a chance for the Olympic champion, however mentioned that nothing had been totally determined as of but. Patrick Lefevere, Soudal Fast-Step’s boss, has additionally mentioned that the Tour of Britain is on Evenepoel’s provisional schedule, as a prelude to the World Championships.
Biking Weekly contacted British Biking Occasions to verify Evenepoel’s participation, however they have been unable to formally remark. An announcement relating to groups on the Tour of Britain will likely be made within the coming days.
It’s understood that double Olympic MTB champion Tom Pidcock is prone to function for Ineos Grenadiers. Sources recommended that the course was designed with the purpose of attracting Pidcock, who completed second on the truncated 2022 version.
Evenepoel made his Tour de France debut this summer season and completed third general. He was additionally topped as the very best younger rider in Good. He then added an Olympic gold medal to his palmarès.
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British Biking will run the Tour of Britain Males underneath their very own banner for the primary time this 12 months after the race’s former organiser, SweetSpot, entered liquidation. The nationwide governing physique’s new main occasions arm will take cost of the occasion. Former Ineos Grenadiers boss Rod Ellingworth was appointed race director of each the Tour of Britain Males and Girls in March.
Ellingworth not too long ago instructed Biking Weekly that he was “completely open” to the opportunity of Mark Cavendish additionally being a part of the race in some capability.
This 12 months’s race will happen over six days – to attain future parity with the ladies’s race – beginning in Scotland earlier than wrapping up in Felixstowe, Suffolk on 8 September. Suffolk performed host to the race final 12 months with Wout van Aert grabbing a stage win in Felixstowe.
Full route particulars have been not too long ago introduced for the primary two levels in Scotland and northern England through which the peloton will face greater than 5,000 metres of elevation acquire.
After the primary two levels, the race will then head south with levels in South Yorkshire, the East Midlands and Northamptonshire earlier than reaching the deliberate Suffolk finale.
