Remco Evenpoel (Dečuninck-Quick Step) broke his undefeated record until 2020 on Sunday at the Tour de Pollogne.

Evenpoel, who won the Vuelta a San Juan and the Volta ao Algarve, had his season interrupted by a coronavirus outbreak.

Due to changes in the UCI calendar, the Tour de Pollogne overlapped with the Milan-San Remo and Tour de Ain stars, but Evenpoel's prodigious feat was noted regardless. On Saturday in Bukovina Tatrzanska, he won the 51km solo attack in Poland, 1:48 ahead of Jakub Fuglsang (Astana).

Evenpoel finished with the number of his teammate Fabio Jacobsen, who was seriously injured in a crash on the first Polish stage. After taking the overall win in Krakow on Sunday and Davide Ballerini's third team win, Evenpoel paid tribute to Jacobsen, who recovered from a coma on Friday and is expected to return to the Netherlands this weekend.

"Three stage wins and the overall victory is incredible, but the best result is that Fabio is recovering," Evenpoel said. From the moment the hospital told us about Fabio's condition, we were given great strength and we did everything we could to help him. Knowing how he fought there gave us great strength."

Evenpoel was scheduled to travel to Italy on Monday prior to Il Lombardia, but he told Sporza (open in new tab) that he was the winner of this race. He admitted to Sporza (open new tab) that he is one of the favorites to win the race. I'm feeling good, and I still have a week to recover and explore the course," Evenpoel said.

The Fallen Leaves race shifts to a novel summer schedule with a revised calendar, but familiar obstacles remain. The climbs of Colle Gallo, Colle Brianza, Madonna del Ghisallo, Muro di Solmano, Civiglio, and San Fermo della Battaglia will be tackled.

"You have to avoid bad luck and be familiar with the descents. You don't need to see the course, you can get to know it from outside on the Internet, but I'm going to train as much as possible on the course, especially in the final," Evenpoel told Sporza. 'Tomorrow (Monday - editorial) I will go to Italy and explore the track a couple of times.'

Evenepoel will also make his Grand Tour debut on Italian roads in 2020, when he will compete in the Giro d'Italia, which begins on October 3 in Palermo.

"The team trusts me and I trust them. I go into the Giro with a strong team," Evenpoel said. And I'm going to give it my all for three weeks and see how far I can go in the end."