Can Remco Evenepoel topple Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Egan Bernal at Tour de France?

As Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) closes on a historic Vuelta triumph, attention is already turning to the 2023 Tour de France. The 22-year-old Belgian is on the cusp on winning the Spanish Grand Tour after safely traversing the final mountain tests on Stage 20. Ad Evenepoel claimed on Saturday that the Vuelta is the first Grand Tour he has entered completely healthy, and should he keep fit, many believe he can be a real threat in next year's Tour.

Vuelta a España'He proved us all wrong' — Why Evenepoel will become 'hero' in Belgium3 HOURS AGO Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) clinched the title in France in July after dethroning Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) in a thriller. With Evenepoel carving up the Vuelta, and 2019 champion Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) also on the comeback trail from a career-threatening crash in his native Colombia, next year’s Tour has all the ingredients to surpass the 2022 edition. Even if the quartet do not all feature in 2023, they are all young enough to star at the sport’s biggest race for years to come.

Vingegaard and Bernal are 25, Pogacar is 23 and Evenepoel is 22. Blythe said that it was difficult to give a firm opinion on how Evenepoel will do at the Tour, should he ride next year, because of how different it is to the Vuelta. “I think the nice thing is the likes of Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic — they rarely race each other up until the Tour de France.