Teenager Remco Evenpoel has a chance to win the UCI Road World Championships time trial, according to Detunink-Quick Step boss Patrick Lefebvre. Evenpoel has been selected to represent Belgium in both the 54km TT and the 284km road race.

The 19-year-old Belgian, who won the junior time trial and road race at last year's world championships in Innsbruck, Austria, will compete in the event with world hour record holder Victor Kampenaerts after skipping the under-23 category entirely.

"It's not that he doesn't have a chance," Lefevere said in an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws. 'He's the European champion by 19 seconds over Kasper Asgreen.'

"The World Championships are not the European Championships," he continued. It's [reigning champion] Rohan Dennis starting. He hasn't raced since the Tour de France, but he has been preparing specifically for the World Championships.

"Of course, there is a big difference between a win and a podium finish. A medal would be nice, but there is only one that matters."

In August, Evenepaul won the 22.4 km course in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, to become the European TT champion. The Yorkshire time trial will be the toughest time trial test he will face, given its length and the fact that it comes at the end of his longest season since he started cycling in 2017.

"If Lemko is in Yorkshire for the World Championship time trial, he could reserve it for the road race. That was the original plan. His victory at Clasica San Sebastian and his performance in Germany eventually ensured that Lemko would be there [for both races]," Lefebvre said.

What he did in the German Deutschland Tour was to ride solo more than 100 km from the front of the peloton on the second stage. Although he missed out on the stage win, it was an example of the powerful solo riding that Evenepoel excelled at as a junior.

"It was difficult to follow the Montreal GP because I wasn't in Canada, but apparently Lemko attacked again," Lefebvre said. It appears that Lemko has attacked again," Lefebvre said. It seems that Lemko attacked again, especially Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida), who rode hard behind Lemko.

Asked if he had expected in advance that Evenpoel would perform as well as he had, Lefebvre made it clear that the teenager had far exceeded all expectations.

"I knew he would show the same class that he showed as a junior.

Despite his jump from junior to professional, Evenpoel shows no signs of slowing down and seems to be getting better with each passing year, and if his third place in the time trial at the Vuelta a San Juan in January was a remarkable result, what he has accomplished in the last few months is nothing short of phenomenal.

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With 56 races, including 15 at the World Tour level, he is right on schedule as far as his debut season race program is concerned.

"We have largely adhered to the program. Lemko wasn't going to ride more than 60 days this year. I think we're about there."

"We've been on schedule.

The veteran team boss has no intention of standing in the way of Evenpoel's bid for the Tokyo Olympics next year.

"He doesn't yet have a salary to live on in Monaco," Lefebvre said. He is young and impulsive, and when he first went to Tenerife, he wanted to live there right away."

"He is a very young man, and he is very impulsive."

"He is a very young man.

"He consulted Philippe Gilbert and then said he wanted to live in Monaco. Philippe told me that Remco should not do that. He is only 19 years old and his parents are taking care of him. He sits alone morning and night, who is going to cook his meals? "

And speaking of Gilbert, Lefebvre seems to be advancing the Belgian's road racing world championship title, at least from his own riders. Lefebvre expects 12 riders to compete in the Yorkshire. For Julien Alaphilippe, another of France's leading Detourninck-Quickstep contenders, recovery from his Tour de France struggles will be a problem.

"The riders who took part in the Tour de France can no longer reach that level," he said. 'It's hard to run the Tour à Broc. Look at Julien. He has to peak for the third time this year. It's not a given.

"Gilbert will be there. I am sure he will fight for the world title. For Alaphilippe, it could go either way. He made a decisive attack in Montreal. But he has to look for that little something extra he had in the spring in the days to come."

Lefebvre's last words came on the topic of which player to root for.

"I won't keep that a secret. Gilbert will run for another team next year," referring to his move to Belgian Lot Soudal next season.

Elite men's road race Julien Alaphilippe (France), Kasper Asgreen (Denmark), Tim De Klerk (Belgium), Remco Evenpole (Belgium), Philippe Gilbert (Belgium), Alvaro Hodeg (Colombia), Bob Jungels (Luxembourg), Yves Lampert (Belgium), Michal Morkov (Denmark), Maximiliano Richeze (Argentina), Florian Senechal (France), Zdenek Stejbal (Czech Republic)

Elite Men's Time Trial: Kasper Asgreen (Denmark), Remco Evenpole (Belgium), Bob Jungels (Luxembourg), Yves Lampert (Belgium)