As the dust settled on the European Championships elite men's road race and another Tadej Pogačar exhibition, with 31 seconds still separating them at the line, silver medallist Remco Evenepoel could only concede that he needs to improve -and this despite the rest of the field being completely blown away by the top two finishers.
Pogačar began to apply maximum pressure with 76km to go. Only Evenepoel could follow initially, but soon he started to look over his shoulder, and then he had to pull the pin. The watts were too high and he wouldn't see Pogačar's rainbow jersey again, until arriving in Guilherand-Granges 75km later.
