Remco Evenepoel is 'biggest talent cycling has seen in decades', claims Dan Lloyd after La Vuelta display

Remco Evenepoel (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) is “the biggest talent cycling has seen in decades”, according to Dan Lloyd on The Breakaway. Evenepoel currently leads La Vuelta after taking the red jersey on Thursday when he attacked and took time out of his general classification rivals, including race favourite Primoz Roglic.

Ad The Belgian will take a 1’01” advantage to Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) going into the weekend’s stages which include two summit finishes. Vuelta a EspañaIs Evenepoel’s team strong enough to keep him in red at La Vuelta?5 HOURS AGO “He's probably the biggest talent cycling has seen in decades,” Lloyd said.

“Whilst his father [Patrick Evenepoel] was a professional cyclist who rode this race, somewhere around 30 or 40 years ago, Remco wasn't destined to be a cyclist because he had gone down the football route and was very close to turning professional. “I don’t know what the decision was [for Evenepoel] to start riding and racing bikes but it didn’t come until his first year as a junior by which point most riders these days had already been competing in the lower age categories for a number of years.

“He started winning immediately and in his second and final year in the junior category, there was barely a race that went by which he didn’t win.” Emotional Herrada wins tense Stage 7 as Wright denied again Opinion: The impulsive Remco is no more – Roglic should be terrified Is Evenepoel’s team strong enough to keep him in red at La Vuelta? Having won both the time trial and road race at the 2018 European Junior Road Cycling Championships, finishing nearly 10 minutes ahead of the field in the latter, Evenepoel repeated his triumphs at world junior level later that year. It was that season where Evenepoel was