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Evenepoel rides a 65 km recon of the LA 2028 time trial course
Remco Evenepoel uploaded a 65.34 km Strava ride titled "LA 2028 ITT RECON", centred on the expected time trial course around Griffith Observatory. He climbed to the Observatory in 10:23 on a segment with a 7:22 course record, a pace that suggests scouting rather than going full gas.
The ride covered 614 m of climbing in 2:16:10 moving time at 28.8 km/h on a Specialized Tarmac SL 9, with Jai Hindley and Luke Tuckwell alongside. The Strava segment to Griffith Observatory is 2.97 km, longer than the roughly 2 km finishing climb at 7% that ends the Olympic time trial, and he covered it at 17.2 km/h. The same trip took him to Specialized in Morgan Hill for wind tunnel testing after Il Lombardia, where he finished fourth. He already holds the Paris 2024 time trial gold, and his Olympic plans for 2028 remain unconfirmed. A course recon and a wind tunnel session in one off-season trip, while his 2028 Olympic plans remain unconfirmed, show him treating the LA time trial as an objective.
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