"Was Remco Evenepoel the other big winner of stage 4 of Paris-Nice?" Belgian newspaper Dernière Heure speculated in its race analysis of Wednesday's dramatic events in the Course au Soleil. After the way Evenepoel's team handled the terrible race conditions on Wednesday, claiming three of the four top spots on the stage, it would be hard to disagree.
Whilst Evenepoel continues his altitude training camp in the Canaries, 2,000 kilometres further north, Red Bull started off their day in Paris-Nice as the best-represented squad in the 40-strong echelon that formed in the opening kilometres of the mountainous stage.
