Recent content by theyoungest

I'm pretty sure, like Evenepoel and the Tour, that Virgil van Dijk would gladly trade his Champions League win with Liverpool for the World Cup with the Netherlands. It's also simply a much bigger tournament. It's the biggest sports event in the world. Like the Tour is by far the most watched...

Nigel de Jong is currently the technical director of the Dutch FA. God help us.

This was about whether Evenepoel would give up his palmares for Vingegaard's. I think he would. Why do you think he's constantly talking about preparing for the Tour, this is not the Tour yet, it's all about the Tour, I've come to Red Bull to win the Tour, I'll be losing weight for the Tour...

Winning the Tour even once trumps Evenepoel's entire palmares. The Tour is cycling's holy grail. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the best or most entertaining race. The final of the World Cup in football often isn't very entertaining either. But it's the one everybody wants to win.

Given that he won, what is it, 7 races beforehand, including against riders who are now finishing in front of him, a bit of hybris isn't exactly surprising. After all the media created this narrative as well: who's going to beat Evenepoel here? Turns out, quite a few people.

You can't fault Evenepoel for always being very ambitious, clear about his goals, and very analytical. The problem is in his analysis there's never room for the obvious: he just wasn't good enough.

Good win for Del Toro, but clearly Plapp made some tactical mistakes there. He was probably equally strong.

Sounds like an Indiana Jones movie. I think he will. Or at least he'll do better on this climb, which isn't as steep. Remember Lotte Kopecky has won here.

Because those odds are mainly based on name recognition and hype, not really on reality. Certainly this early in the season. I remember Froome had pretty decent odds for a long time when everyone who knew anything about cycling knew he wasn't going to feature at all. Evenepoel just has this...

Airco Evenepoel is a good one though, admit it. Cyclinguptodate is awful. Poorly Google translated clickbait articles. But it generates traffic, and that's all that matters.

I don't see why not. Evenepoel has a big engine, but as long as he struggles to haul that engine up a mountain, advantage Onley.

Actually the last WT stage race he won was UAE... 3 years ago. For someone who's constantly touted as the great challenger for Pogacar, that's not very impressive. He's not even able to win when Pogi or Vingegaard aren't there. If you just look at him on a climb like yesterday, you know that...

I believe you're a native speaker of Dutch, so you should know that this can't be his name. It's Tijmen Graat :) Of course Evenepoel can do better than this, but the fact remains that in nearly every stage race, at some point he just cracks on a climb. And there's always excuses, like today...

I think it's more of a gesture among friends than an order from the Roodhoofts. Why do everything to finish 8th in a race and deny your friend the overall win in a classification. I can imagine Fouquenet was none too pleased though.

I'm not sure Iñigo San Millán is the guy you want to hire... San Millán got replaced as Pogacar's trainer and Vingegaard hasn't been able to beat him ever since. Or maybe you were trolling. I'm interested to know what Vingegaard thinks of these developments. He seemed to be pretty close with...