La Vuelta 2022 - ‘S*** happens!’ – Remco Evenepoel reflective after initially raging about crash on Stage 12

After initially fuming, Remco Evenepoel filed his unfortunate spill on Stage 12 of La Vuelta under «s*** happens”. The 22-year-old Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl rider had initially raged after losing his front wheel on a innocuous bend during the descent back towards the coast at a point in the race when Quick-Step were under no real pressure.

Ad He rode up alongside the race director’s car and launched a bit of a tirade – blaming everyone from the TV motorcycle to the Spanish road layers. Vuelta a EspañaEvenepoel ‘spat his dummy out’ but produced ‘perfect’ finish to Stage 12 – Blythe2 HOURS AGO Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) emerged from a break to win the stage as Evenepoel ultimately solidified his general classification advantage.

And in his post-race interview, he cut a far more reflective mood, asked whether he had suffered any damage, he replied: “Yeah, just my leg, but it’s fine I think. “My bike is much worse than myself so… it was a super slippery corner.

I think the motorbikes were slipping as well and slowing down. That’s why actually — I wanted to cut the corner but it was a bit too much but yeah.

“Sorry for my language but s*** happens.” Evenepoel recovers from crash to lay down marker, Carapaz wins Stage 12 Red jersey Evenepoel crashes, rages at commissaires Blip or first sign of weakness in Evenepoel’s red armour? The 22-year-old re-joined the peloton before leading the red jersey group home in an unexpected show of strength, and he told Eurosport after the race that he made the move as he felt he had something left in the tank. “[In the] last 200 metres I just went out to sprint because I felt I had something left so it was a good feeling.” The result meant that Evenepoel maintained his 2’14” advantage over