Another extraordinary victory for Remco Evenepoel who, after winning the world championship in Africa last September 21st, has again conquered the most precious medal at the European Championships.

Currently he is Olympic champion, Belgian champion, world champion, and now European champion: this has never happened before that a rider achieved all these successes simultaneously. Not even Filippo Ganna managed to get close to his time and had to settle for silver with a delay of 43", while Danish rider Larsen won bronze with a gap of over a minute.

"Everything went perfectly, only the weather created some problems - Evenepoel summarized during the press conference - The only negative note was that my 'earpiece' didn't work until a kilometer and a half from the finish line."

The European Championship route was undulating and non-technical, through the Drôme, with two challenging climbs and very few curves: the Belgian was able to fully exploit his power, speed, and aerodynamics, over a 24-kilometer distance from Loriol-sur-Drôme to Étoile-sur-Rhône.

"I could feel in my legs that I was doing a good time. But I didn't know exactly how I was going along the route. I didn't expect such a big gap. At least not against a champion like Filippo. He lost almost two seconds per kilometer to me. That's quite significant."

"The plan was to start strong because it was a relatively short time trial. I managed to maintain my pace throughout and I'm satisfied with that."

After carefully examining the route, Evenepoel had imagined finishing the race with a time between 28 and 29 minutes and ultimately crossed the finish line stopping the clock at 28:26:26.

Evenepoel was the only one to break the 50 km/h barrier. A result that allowed him to win his second international time trial title in just eight days, although he considers the World Championship route very different from the European Championship.

"I think these were two completely different trials. In Kigali, the time trial was twice as long, and my advantage was almost as large as yesterday. Based purely on feeling, technique, and overall performance, maybe it would have gone slightly better. But in Rwanda, altitude, heat, and humidity also played an important role. Yesterday the conditions were practically ideal."

At 25, the Belgian has practically won everything in time trials and wants to continue doing so. Now that he has changed teams, one of the first topics will concern time trials.

"I can say that the hour record is not yet in my plans. I have other things to do first. One day, perhaps later in my career when I'm thirty, I might try it. But not in the near future. Starting from 2026, I will work with former world hour record holder Dan Bigham, engineering manager at Red Bull-BORA. I'm curious to hear what he thinks. But personally, I won't make it an absolute priority, let's say for the next five years."

About next Sunday's road race, Evenepoel didn't say much and simply limited himself to saying that he hopes to have time to recover.