Cycling “I was not four kilograms overweight, but I have some small things changed in my eating habits.” That says Remco Evenepoel (19) in a conversation with Wielerflits. According to the young man was the infamous quote of Deceuninck Quick.Step manager Patrick Lefevere in HUMO: what, from the context given, but “I have it picked up and keep my weight better in the holes”.

Today, Remco Evenepoel is up and running again. The 19-year-old talent from Deceuninck–Quick-Step is at the start of the Tour of Turkey, almost four weeks after the previous course. In the meantime, went Evenepoel on stage to the Spanish Calpe, where the main focus was on the shorter and more intensive work. That tells the juniorenwereldkampioen in a conversation with wielerflits.

Although he had no matches reed, took Evenepoel be all over the news. In an interview with weekly magazine HUMO called Patrick Lefevere Evenepoel “too thick”. “With the same weight as at the world CHAMPIONSHIPS last year, he was in Emirates in the top five ended. But who 4 pounds to a lot of weighs, given the bill”, they said. Evenepoel indicates that he is up there with the he signed up has spoken.