{"id":117226,"date":"2026-04-05T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/remco-roubaix-is-evenepoel-going-to-race-the-hell-of-the-north-too\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:29:09","slug":"remco-roubaix-is-evenepoel-going-to-race-the-hell-of-the-north-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/remco-roubaix-is-evenepoel-going-to-race-the-hell-of-the-north-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco-Roubaix? Is Evenepoel going to race the Hell of the North too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Will we see Remco Evenepoel line up at Paris-Roubaix next weekend? It\u2019s the obvious follow-up question after his eye-catching ride at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/pogacar-earns-a-hat-trick-of-ronde-van-vlaanderen-titles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour of Flanders<\/a>, where he finished third behind Tadej Poga\u010dar and Mathieu van der Poel.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, though, it sounds unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not really on the schedule at the moment, but it\u2019s something we can talk about,\u201d Evenepoel said, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wielerflits.nl\/nieuws\/remco-evenepoel-sluit-deelname-aan-parijs-roubaix-2026-niet-uit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WielerFlits<\/a>, hinting that while nothing is planned, the idea hasn\u2019t been completely dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, he seemed to walk that back\u2026 a bit. It started to feel like that time when there were all those rumours that Pogi would race Roubaix last year. (And he did.)<\/p>\n<h2>Evenepoel and the media games<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a good chance it won\u2019t happen,\u201d he said, referencing how he\u2019d firmly ruled out Flanders just days earlier, only to show up and finish on the podium. \u201cWe\u2019ve played enough games already. At this point, it\u2019s really not the intention,\u201d he said, via WielerFlits.<\/p>\n<p>But again, here\u2019s a guy who was quite proud of how he played up the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/evenepoel-embraces-flanders-unknown-after-media-games-ahead-of-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> about whether or not he was going to race Flanders. He even stayed off social media for a few weeks\u2013which is something, these days.<\/p>\n<p>(Then again, if someone is one of the best athletes in the world, I guess he\u2019s got some discipline, eh?)<br \/>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wielerflits.nl\/nieuws\/remco-evenepoel-sluit-deelname-aan-parijs-roubaix-2026-niet-uit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sporza<\/a>, Evenepoel kept the same tone \u2014 half-serious, half-teasing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll leave a small opening,\u201d he said. \u201cBut others might have already closed the door. I can\u2019t promise anything. We\u2019ve said enough things that didn\u2019t turn out to be true\u2026 so I\u2019ll stay quiet for now. Roubaix hasn\u2019t really been discussed yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, erm\u2026 don\u2019t count on it. But also, maybe don\u2019t rule it out completely either.<\/p>\n<p>What we <em>do<\/em> know is Poga\u010dar is racing, and he wants to win. The fifth Monument that eludes him will be one of the toughest. Milan-San Remo may have been \u201cimpossible\u201d on paper, but there were climbs\u2013even if they were \u201ceasy\u201d compared to Flanders.<\/p>\n<p>And he won that, in, well, the most impossible way.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, he got second last year at Paris-Roubaix behind van der Poel, albeit after a crash. But had he shown up in the velodrome with the Alpecin-Premier Tech rider, would he have taken him in a sprint?<\/p>\n<p>Or Wout van Aert? Or Mads Pedersen? Paris-Roubaix is meant for bigger riders, bigger in size, that is, not Pogi, or Evenepoel, really. But who knows anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Paris-Roubaix is next Sunday\u2013both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s. <em>Canadian Cycling Magazine<\/em> will have a report, as well as photos from our man on the ground, James Bunga.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\t\tn = f.fbq = function() {\n\t\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t\t};\n\t\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '900220307025564');\n\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/remco-roubaix-is-evenepoel-going-to-race-the-hell-of-the-north-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will we see Remco Evenepoel line up at Paris-Roubaix next weekend? It\u2019s the obvious follow-up question after his eye-catching ride at the Tour of Flanders, where he finished third behind Tadej Poga\u010dar and Mathieu van der Poel. Right now, though, it sounds unlikely. \u201cIt\u2019s not really on the schedule at the moment, but it\u2019s something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}