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Stephen Farrand

Remco Evenepoel and the solitude of chasing Tour de France success

Remco Evenepoel Tour de France Tadej Pogačar Jonas Vingegaard Tour SoudalQuickStep BELGA MAG France Gran Jurgen Foré
Belgian Remco Evenepoel of Soudal Quick-Step pictured in action during stage 20 of the 2024 Tour de France cycling race, from Nice to Col de la Couillole (132,8 km), in France, on Saturday 20 July 2024. The 111th edition of the Tour de France starts on Saturday 29 June and will finish in Nice, France on 21 July. BELGA PHOTO TOM GOYVAERTS (Photo by Tom Goyvaerts / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP) (Photo by TOM GOYVAERTS/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images).

Remco Evenepoel was reported to be 'angry' during his final Tour de France altitude in Tignes; angry with himself after his alternating performances at the Critérium du Dauphiné, angry that his Soudal-QuickStep team often left isolated during the key mountain stages and angry that the 2025 Tour de France could go a similar way.

He has vented his 'anger' by posting lines from Flemish rappers on his Strava account, as Het Laatste Nieuws journalist Yuri De Knop noticed.

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