Remco Evenepoel on Tadej Pogačar: He's not the same as us

Belgian was unable to follow Tadej Pogačar's attack on the climb to Isola 2000 on Friday

Tadej Pogačar (left) and Remco Evenepoel on stage 19 of the 2024 Tour de France
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Remco Evenepoel is riding the Grand Tour of his life, possibly even better than when he won the Vuelta a España in 2022, and yet he sits third on the Tour de France's general classification, behind two riders who might be some of the best ever.

The Soudal Quick-Step rider is now seven minutes behind Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and two minutes behind Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) after stage 19 of the Tour, another day where Pogačar was better than anyone, but Evenepoel matched Vingegaard.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW in 2021 he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to riding bikes.