Remco Evenepoel ready to challenge, finally, Tadej Pogacar on Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Four years that the fans of Liège-Bastogne-Liège have impatiently impatient that this duel finally took place. Four months since Remco Evenepoel dreams of leaving it winner, facing Tadej Pogacar, to devote his return to the highest level with a crash. The Belgian and Slovenian have an appointment, Sunday, April 27, on the roads of the Dean of the Classics, of which they each have won two of the last four editions without really being able to meet iron.

The confrontation between the double Olympic champion and the world champion is at the height of the show offered by Mathieu Van der Poel and Pogacar on Milan-San Remo and the Flanderian classics. These first shocks at the top of the season, Remco Evenepoel followed them in front of his television in simple keen on the big cycling soap opera, if not being able to participate. The Sudal Quick-Step runner was not yet there, forced to recover, physically and psychologically, from his serious injury of December 3, 2024.

That day, during a training, he had brutally struck the door of a post vehicle in Oetingen, in the west of Brussels. The impact had broken the frame of his bicycle in two. He had been the victim of a fracture with the ribs, the scapula and in his right hand. Remco Evenepoel then started “The most difficult battle of [sa] vie »as he later explained in a message published on his social networks. For a time, he even planned to end his career, at only 25 years old.

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