irst, Remco Evenepoel won his opening race of the year with a 55km solo attack in Portugal. Jonas Vingegaard then upped the ante with a clean sweep of all road stages of the O Gran Camiño in Spain. Not wanting to feel left out, Tadej Pogačar blew off the winter cobwebs by blasting clear 81km from the finish in Siena – just as he had told reporters he would do – to win Strade Bianche at a canter.
