'Tired' Remco Evenepoel 'starting to feel the effects', expect rivals Ineos Grenadiers to pounce – Adam Blythe

Remco Evenepoel may have won the individual time trial on Stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia, but he looked «tired», concurred The Breakaway experts of Dan Lloyd, Robbie McEwen and Adam Blythe. Blythe said that he expect Evenepoel's rivals – namely the Ineos Grenadiers – to try to push on and “weaken him day by day.” Ad Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) made a flying start to the time trial and looked like he was going to put significant time into his general classification rivals.

Giro d'Italia‘Does it again’ — Evenepoel beats Thomas to time trial win, reclaims pink jersey3 HOURS AGO However, the Belgian couldn’t maintain the pace and in the end won by just one second from Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers). Thomas’ team-mate Tao Geoghegan Hart was just a second further back and Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) only surrendered 17 seconds to Evenepoel.

Reflecting on the stage, Evenepoel had mixed emotions. “I think I didn’t pace it very well, I started way too fast and my second part was a really bad part,” he said.

“After the technical section I found some better legs because I could recover, but I think my first part was very good and it was the pacing plan we tried to get, but in the second part with the headwind I wasn’t feeling too well. “So not the best result but it’s another stage win so that’s very nice, but it was not my best time trial I ever did.

“We should be happy we took the stage win and we have the pink jersey but it was a very tight one.” Evenepoel snatches Stage 9 time trial win from Thomas Giro d'Italia Stage 9: As it happened Evenepoel may have been feeling the effects of nine straight days of racing, during which he crashed twice on one rain-soaked stage. Eurosport expert Dan Lloyd said on the Breakaway that the