Cycling, Evenepoel: "Spring races at risk: even the Giro d'Italia"

Rome, 13 December 2024 - Cyclists have often become accustomed to lightning-fast recoveries even after terrible injuries, but unfortunately this is not always possible: he knows this well Remco Evenepoel, who apparently will have to deal with the consequences of the terrible accident in training last 3th December for several months. Perhaps even to the point of putting at risk even the presence at Giro d'Italia 2025.

Evenepoel's statements

In fact, already in the last few days Patrick Lefebvre He had hinted at the gravity of the situation when he spoke of a multiple trauma for his pupil that would require 8 weeks of total rest and therefore without a bike: biblical times for a runner, especially if there are, indeed, several spring races already circled in red on the calendar. Everything risks being cancelled, as declared without too many frills by the standard-bearer of the Soudal Quick Step to the microphones of The Latest News. "Things are going pretty well and it's a great relief if I think about the pain I felt in the first few days: fortunately the drugs are doing their job, even if the right side is still bothering me. The operation to Herentals it went well and so I don't complain, but I prefer to think about one day at a time, because at night I still feel a lot of pain and I have trouble sleeping: for the same reason, in the morning I wake up tired and dizzy from the painkillers. But all this is normal in a rehabilitation process". evenepoel, someone who in his young career has already had to deal with several serious injuries, is not making a fuss, but in fact his next season already appears partly compromised. "I won't be able to do anything for more than a month, at least until 6st January, the day of the next exam in which we will see if things are really going in the right direction. Only then will I be able to start doing something with the physiotherapist and, hopefully, also on the rollers, but for the bike another month will have to pass. So, if everything goes well we will talk about it again at the beginning of February and this means that I will not be able to compete until mid-April". With lots of first goals for the 2025 already faded. "Obviously I will not be at the Tour of Catalonia nor to the Paris-Nice and I'm sorry, because they were races I cared about". The problem for the Belgian is that other races also risk falling through the cracks. "It's difficult for me to make plans for the spring. I hope to be there for the Ardennes, where I would like to celebrate my return, and then prepare myself as best as possible for the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but I know obviously that the road will be hard. This also applies to the Giro d'Italia, which may come too soon for me. We will discuss it later and evaluate everything. Unfortunately, after the 2020, when I fell to the Tour of Lombardy, it's the second time I miss a winter retreat and this is really a big obstacle from which - he concludes evenepoel - I hope to come out stronger."

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