A little less than a year ago, in the QuickStep team bus at a Vuelta a España start, the usual techno music that been blasting out every morning for Remco Evenepoel and his teammates for three weeks was suddenly turned down.
“It was the day of the final mountain stage, and we did that because we were feeling so tense,” Louis Vervaeke says now. “We really realized how much we didn’t want to lose the leader’s jersey at the last moment.
