Uae Tour, Remco Evenepoel sprints uphill and is already in the red jersey – Corriere.it

One is enough for Remco Evenepoel snap 200 meters from the finish line of Jebel Jais, which with its almost 1500 meters above sea level is the highest mountain in the United Arab Emirates, to take the UAE Tour leader’s red jersey.

It matters little that the stage she’s gone to the Colombian Movistar Augusto Rubiofleeing from the start of the climb, what matters is that the world champion (arrived at the summit as fresh as after a picnic) showed everyone that, at the first race of the seasonhe’s there and he’s fine. Minimum effort, maximum result and third humiliation in a row for the home battleship, the UAE Emirates, which manages to launch Adam Yates, leader whose legs are still too tight to support a stretch of the Phenomenon.

Third, he gets a second from Remco and widens the already very wide gap after the ambush suffered in the first flat stage: the wealthy Emirati owners of the team, already not too happy with the absence of the divine Pogacar, are not very happy.

With the next two stages reserved for sprinters, the whole UAE Tour will be played out on Sunday on the final climb (much more irregular and suitable for real climbers) where the Belgian will have to demonstrate that his road to the Giro d’Italia is already built on good foundations.