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One day after losing the lead of the UAE Tour on the new climb of Jebel Mobrah, Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was honest in his evaluation of what led to his collapse before stage 4 on Thursday.
After responding to early attacks on the 13.2-kilometre finishing climb on Wednesday, Evenepoel began to struggle in the final sectioneventually giving up just over two minutes to stage winner and new race leader Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious).
“In terms of pacing, I did the climb wrong. It’s funny, actually, because beforehand I had agreed with Klaas [Lodewyck, DS] not to get caught by the first attackers. Yet that’s exactly what happened,” Evenepoel said, according to HLN.be.
