{"id":190739,"date":"2022-09-26T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=190739"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:49:39","slug":"evenepoel-on-his-world-championships-title-i-dont-think-i-will-ever-have-such-a-good-year-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/09\/26\/evenepoel-on-his-world-championships-title-i-dont-think-i-will-ever-have-such-a-good-year-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Evenepoel on His World Championships Title: \u201cI don\u2019t think I will ever have such a good year again\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Belgian soloed to a spectacular victory in the 2022 World Championships Elite Men Road Race. Christophe Laporte (France) took silver in a bunch sprint and Michael Matthews (Australia) won the bronze for the host nation of Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Remco Evenepoel put out a dominating performance, finishing more than two minutes ahead of the field. After leaving Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan) behind with 25 km to go, there was no one who could stop him. The Belgian won the Vuelta in September, Liege-Bastogne-Liege in the spring and now his season culminated with a world title.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a ride \ud83e\udd2f\ud83c\udf08<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wollongong2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wollongong2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mhxm1zCJuQ\">pic.twitter.com\/Mhxm1zCJuQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UCI (@UCI_cycling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCI_cycling\/status\/1573935272756068352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s three more hours of racing \u2013 much, much harder,\u201d Evenepoel said after the finish. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long season, and it\u2019s amazing to finish it like this. I was there with Alexey but I felt quite quickly that I wanted to be alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pity the [same] race next year is in August, so it\u2019s one of the shortest years as World Champion, but it\u2019s something I\u2019ve been dreaming of and I\u2019ve won everything I could this year. I don\u2019t think I will ever have such a good year again.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>RESULTS: UCI ROAD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2022 \u2013 MEN&#8217;S ELITE ROAD RACE (266.9KM)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>1. Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) &#8211; 06:16:08<br \/>\n2. Christophe Laporte (France) + 02:21<br \/>\n3. Michael Matthews (Australia) + 02:21<br \/>\n4. Wout van Aert (Belgium) + 02:21<br \/>\n5. Matteo Trentin (Italy) + 02:21<br \/>\n6. Alexander Kristoff (Norway) + 02:21<br \/>\n7. Peter Sagan (Slovakia) + 02:21<br \/>\n8. Alberto Bettiol (Italy) + 02:21<br \/>\n9. Ethan Hayter (Great Britain) + 02:21<br \/>\n10. 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