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Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) will not fight for the general classification at La Vuelta, according to Eurosport expert Alberto Contador. Evenepoel is second favourite with the bookies despite having never finished a three-week race, with his Giro d’Italia debut last year unravelling spectacularly in the final week before he abandoned.
Remco Evenepoel will be flanked by Julian Alaphilippe as he targets victory at La Vuelta after being named in Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s team for the final Grand Tour of 2022. The Belgian will be hoping to put pressure on three-time defending champion Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), who is expected to line up in Spain despite abandoning the Tour de France with injury. Ad Evenepoel has shown impressive form this season, having won Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the Tour of Norway and Clasica San Sebastian.
Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) has contracted Covid-19 just two days after celebrating a comeback stage win at the Tour de Wallonie. The Frenchman marked his return to action, three months after a heavy crash at Liege–Bastogne–Liege, when finishing first atop the Mur de Huy on Saturday.
MENDE, France : With only seven stages left in this year's race, French riders face the embarrassing prospect of ending the Tour de France without a stage victory for only the third time since the event was created in 1903.
The 2022 Tour de France sees 176 riders compete for the famous yellow jersey or maillot jaune which rewards the overall winner of the race.
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl have announced that Tim Declercq will miss this year’s Tour de France after testing positive for Covid. Florian Senechal will be his replacement, meaning that Mark Cavandish remains sidelined reserve ahead of the race.
Mark Cavendish has not been handed a Tour de France place, his QuickStep-AlphaVinyl team have confirmed.
:Mark Cavendish will not ride in the Tour de France after the British rider was named as a first-reserve rider by Belgian team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl on Monday.