Remco Evenepoel returns to the Vuelta a España as defending champion, but he was careful about talking up his prospects of carrying the maillot rojo to Madrid when he met with reporters on Thursday afternoon, stating his objective was “to go for the final podium.”
The addition of Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard to a Jumbo-Visma squad that already contained three-time Vuelta winner Primož Roglič has certainly complicated Evenepoel’s task on this occasion, but his caution was born, too, of his untimely abandon at May’s Giro d’Italia.
