TakeWorlds3 weeks ago
Evenepoel led at every intermediate checkpoint in Montréal, up by 9 seconds at the first split. By the third, it was 48 seconds. There was no race for the win, only for second.
He was the only rider on the 39.2km course to break 45 minutes, and the only one to average over 52 km/hr — a margin Ganna, twice a champion himself, couldn't touch even 57 seconds back. The gap didn't come from one big move; it built split by split, from 9 seconds to 48 and beyond. That's not a sprint finish story, it's a control story.
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