The ITT World Champion was our highest-ranked rider on the opening day of the Swiss race.<\/p>\n
the Tour de Romandie \u2013 the last major stage race before the Giro d\u2019Italia \u2013 got underway. The short parcours was a technical one, featuring nine corners, a tricky chicane just before the final kilometer, and some uphill sections which spiced things up Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
One of the last Soudal Quick-Step riders to roll down the start ramp, Remco raced with the prestigious rainbow jersey on his shoulders for the first time this year and managed to put together a nice time trial, despite the route not being one tailored to him. A time of 4:37, thanks to an average speed of 44.9km\/h, helped the Belgian take his fourth top ten in just five days of racing this season, at the end of the prologue won by Samuel Watson (Ineos-Grenadiers).<\/p>\n
The race continues on Wednesday with a hilly stage to Fribourg \u2013 the city located on the cultural border between German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland \u2013 where after almost 200 kilometers, the puncheurs should be in the spotlight.<\/p>\n
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Photo credit: \u00a9Dario Belingheri \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ITT World Champion was our highest-ranked rider on the opening day of the Swiss race. the Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,19464,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-61114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-soudal-quick-step-pro-cycling-team","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114423154923133812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}