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Breaking news: the revised Tour de France classification after they removed two aliens (whose DNA could not be confirmed to be human). It turns out Remco has won the TdF with 10 minutes advantage! (the largest winning difference since 1984 and on par with Eddy Merckx' victories, so he has...

What then to say about Andy Schleck? He said he could also do 6.5-7 W/kg (36:30): "Not because I'm scared of them because I would be up there." https://www.vrt.be/vrtmax/a-z/vive-le-velo/2024/vive-le-velo-d20240714/

In the Dauphine he still lost over 1.5 minutes to Rodgriguez (et al.) on a similar climb. (Of course he was 2.5kg heavier then and said he only went all-in during the time trial there.)...

Pogacar only a few seconds faster than (63kg+?) Remco on 30min climb. View: https://twitter.com/WattsinCycling/status/1770125885561049216

In addition to not being at peak level yet and/because of no altitude (because his goal is July, which is 4 months off), couldn't his weight be one of those marginal gains that is being overlooked? Before the Giro 2021 he said he was at his sharpest ever at 59-60kg, now people seem to be...

This is omitting the fact he was scheduled to go to the 2020 Giro before COVID and his crash happened. If he had won that one, he probably would have gone to the Tour from 2021 onwards already, meaning by now we would have had 3 TDF worth of data points of Evenepoel vs. Pogacar, Vingegaard...

[Vuelta review] While it was disappointing the expected top-form Evenepoel vs. top-form Roglic-Vingegaard battle didn't happen (which would finally have settled the debate... or not), Remco nevertheless delivered overall an astonishing GT with 3 wins and 3 second places despite in some stages...

You just answered your own question. He came to the Vuelta to compete against Vingegaard etc, and now he isn't even trying anymore. I was looking forward to Evenepoel dispelling the myth that he doesn't have what it takes against the likes of Pogacar and Vingegaard (in the mountains), but so far...

Sad day to be Remco fan.

It's ironic that people are speculating about his (lack of) level in maintain stages when this exact stage was supposed to finally answer how he stacks up against the likes of Vingegaard, Roglic, etc.

The plan for Remco should be to get into red today -- attack and drop Kuss. If he doesn't/can't do it today, then when?

He said he couldn't push his watts as planned today and had a weak moment around 10 minutes. Still managed to not lose much time to Ganna (and again gained time at the end just like last week) and ahead of all GC guys including Olympic champion, so despite mediocre performance (compared to his...

1) Remco was (purposely, he said) toying with Kuss for half of the climb. 2) No one really attacked. Remco didn't even have his power meter. There's no indication Evenepoel ever went all out. 3) If you think 7W/kg is merely "good", then do you have an idea which riders they have beaten up this...

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A bit weird. At first he looked like Pogacar in the Tour, but improved again and in the last km he was faster than Rog and Vingegaard. If he is really ill/injured, he should have just continued to lose more time, and his stage victory has shown he has no trouble with accelerations. If this was...