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Brabantse Pijl 2025, April 18

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Didinho

Didinho

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ChewbaccaDefense said:
At Wout's best, Remoc isn't nearly the sprinter. Absurd to suggest otherwise. Wout is not at his best, and he may never be again, but this narrative that he never was is absurd.
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Wout is at his best. A sprint after such a race is not a normal sprint. It’s just the legs, who got something left. And Wout looked cooked the last 10km. Remco was just better in the end.

He just said Remco was killing him slowly the last hour.
 
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Cycling111

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houtdffan said:
I said in the sprint

Pog is still the better climber
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Pogacar seems to have lost some sprint power these two years due to his climbing entrenament.

But Pogacar was incredibly fast until 2023.
Was one of the last riders to beat Pedersen twice in a sprint: Glasgow and San Remo.

Although, as I said, he seems to have lost sprint due to the training change.
It's the only area where he seems to have wors compared to 2023.
 
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ChewbaccaDefense

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Didinho said:
Wout is at his best. A sprint after such a race is not a normal sprint. It’s just the legs, who got something left. And Wout looked cooked the last 10km. Remco was just better in the end.

He just said Remco was killing him slowly the last hour.
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My feed is behind, and am just seeing this. Wout seems to be in good spirits. That's nice to see, as his fans <me> are having a harder time with this.
 
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It seems easy to explain that WvA lost the sprint:
It's uphill;
It was a 1 vs. 1 sprint;
Remco isn't that slow;
It was a 40K breakaway with Remco, that would wear everyone except the smallest riders out;

WvA's strength, at least when he still won sprints, was his positioning / top speed after a fast lead-out. Neither was a factor here. He didn't even get draft from Remco starting the sprint.
 
Hugh Januss

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Rackham said:
I think there's something wrong, actually. Something with his knee. It's like he tried to get on the pedals and then stopped.
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I've suspected that but also it's his head, he has not initiated a single sprint he's been part of this season. If you wait until the guy in front gets to where he is confident he can go all the way to the line and then react to his jump you've essentially spotted the front guy one and a half bike lengths. He is so far in his head by this point that he is afraid to commit. Whether going for the win or the minor placings Wout has started his sprint on the wheel of the guy who wins it and finished there as well.
 
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Cycling111

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Rackham said:
The world doesn't evolve around Evenepoel. I'm not looking at your favorite rider here, I'm looking at Van Aert. And no, he's not the same as he used to be. We saw that versus Powless a couple of weeks ago and it was even more evident today.
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The defeat against Powless was terrible for Van Aert due to Visma's superiority, but the results in Algarve were more worrying.

In other years, Van Aert would have won two stages in the Algarve against those sprinters. This Year, he couldn't even finish third.
 
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Van Aert reminds me of 2024 Tour Vingegaard, it's like they gambled on just giving him a massive engine for long races because the injury hampered his training schedule, it's not like he was cooked at the end of the monuments and he did at least maintain modest gaps and never really cracked.

Problem is you need a way of putting distance between yourself and the others, without a proper kick they can just follow you. On a positive note it's something that he might be able to regain depending on how bad his knee actually is.
 
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Red Rick said:
Honestly it just reduces the standalone prestige of the race. What 1 day race is even 160km?

I really don't understand the decision. Even if they say they wanna attrack riders who race Itzulia. But this race is nothing like Itzulia.
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I enjoy reading all the observations, I have to say I agree to some degree with most of them. I love seeing longer races, Makes who makes the selection.. @200k is sweet spot.
Remco was remarkable!! The guy came ready, obviously well prepared and didn't shy away from testing himself and the others. His legs looked great!! Wout rode well but each time he tests it this year his sprint is soggy and labored..no snap still great ride!!UAE gets another podium, Morgado is a monster, coasted, looking around for third!!
Welcome home Remco top step!!
 
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Nice victory for Remco, really nice to see him be agressive in his first race back. He was also able to keep his cool in the last 3km when Van Aert was not pulling.
WVA just did not have it in the end, you could see how the balance of power was shifting between him and Remco during the race: the first time up the Moskestrass Evenepoel almost got dropped, but in the last lap it was Wout who was suffering more
 
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Tim Cahill said:
Van Aert reminds me of 2024 Tour Vingegaard, it's like they gambled on just giving him a massive engine for long races because the injury hampered his training schedule, it's not like he was cooked at the end of the monuments and he did at least maintain modest gaps and never really cracked.

Problem is you need a way of putting distance between yourself and the others, without a proper kick they can just follow you. On a positive note it's something that he might be able to regain depending on how bad his knee actually is.
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Today I saw Van Aert struggling in the final kilometers.
And they've cut the race to 160 kilometers.
The feeling is that if the distance had been 200 kilometers today, Van Aert wouldn't have arrive with Remco and he'd explode.
 
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Tim Cahill

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If the race was the 250km he’s trained for it would’ve been raced differently, he looked cooked early on in Flanders and Roubaix too and by the end looked good. I think it was the short repeated efforts on a truncated parcours that did for him here, nothing wrong or out of the ordinary with losing to evenepoel of course, even with ideal prep it would’ve still been tough to beat him.
 
Didinho

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What I’m thinking now. If you’re feeling cooked and Remco wanted Wout in front of him. I would just take a turn, drop the pace and try to recover more than when Remco is still pacing harder. Remco should make up a bike length in the sprint also.
It wouldn’t change the outcome for sure but I was thinking how to give yourself the best chance.
 
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