No brace or, at least, it will not be Tadej Pogacar to do it but it could try Remco Evnepoel If, as he said on arrival, “next Sunday the legs will still be today …”. Today the Martian was he who won the chronometer gold on the opening day of the cycling World Championships, in Kigali, in Rwanda. He confirms himself champion for the third consecutive time after closing the 40.6 km of the route with the time of 49’46 “03, preceding the Australian Jay Vine, silver, and compatriot Ilian Van Wilder. The best of Italians was Matteo Sobrero who arrived thirteenth. There was no history. Or rather, there was all right, beyond a very hard time, altitude, heat and humidity, because the photo of the overtaking of Evenepel in Pogacar that had started two and a half minutes earlier is the ones that remain forever. Nobody could think, not even imagining but after the second Intermempo it was understood immediately that it would happen: “The overtaking did not count- explained the new world champion- when I saw Tadej in front of me I thought only to go as strong as possible …”. Mission accomplished. A couple of months ago, at the tour, in the chronoscalato of Peyragudes dominated by the Slovenian, it was touched at Evenepoel to undergo the break of being reached and surpassed by Jonas Vingegaard who had left after him. But things change quickly and today Evenepel has returned to dictate the law on his planet, that of the chronometer tests that have already seen him Olympian this year and world champion last year and two years ago. A victory that was expected but perhaps not so domineering and overflowing that gives the challenge next Sunday the Belgian champion in great dusting and the Slovenian one somewhat mocked and perhaps explains his renunciation of Vuelta. Seven days to reset everything. To put your legs back and probably also a little head because that “overtaking” first forgets it is better …