Remco Evenepoel

[Volderke]

I would love to believe the Internet and all of its anonymous commenters are full of true facts only. Unfortunately that Nigerian prince with whom I was enjoying a pleasant correspondence taught me a costly lesson in misplaced credibility. But don't let me interrupt your quest to be the Edward Snowden of Team Remco. It's important to have dreams.

Please just put me on ignore or just don't respond if you can't appreciate inside info. I'm not making any money from commenting like your Nigerian prince, but they have a saying in Dutch / Flemish (and as I look it up, it's coming from the bible so applicable in English as well): pearls for swines.

 

[Aimar16]

Remco is not happy about the frequent anti-doping tests: ""No... You test me three times a week" - https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230827_96227081

 

[pastronef]

Remco is not happy about the frequent anti-doping tests: ""No... You test me three times a week" - https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20230827_96227081

well, he probably wanted to get a warm shower and dry clothes instead of waiting for a doping test

 

[zlev11]

they should test his bike after that weird ***

 

[the delgados]

I just saw the replay of Remco crashing into a photo journalist at speed after a mountaintop finish. The injury sustained is incredible!
When will the Spanish organizers learn to to stop letting moto-bikes cross the finish line with all those photographers standing around?
First they have them riding in the dark, now this.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Can we change the name of this thread to "Remco Evenepoel is the next Lance Armstrong" thread?

 

[Netserk]

Can we change the name of this thread to "Remco Evenepoel is the next Lance Armstrong" thread?

Paging @therealthing

 

[The Clogger]

1.71 m 61 kg did 55.451 km/h on average for 28 minutes on a flat ITT

Big Mouth from Belgium definitely have one of the best doctor connections in cycling at the moment

 

[Netserk]

Bad blood bag?

 

[LesDiablesRouges]

Hopefully this should end any additional nonsense about doping. Weird how how Remco has bad days off days, and yet those same peopel don't point the finger at Jumbo Visma especially with Hessman getting caught.

You think he's doping alone?

 

[Netserk]

Hopefully this should end any additional nonsense about doping. Weird how how Remco has bad days off days, and yet those same peopel don't point the finger at Jumbo Visma especially with Hessman getting caught.

You think he's doping alone?

This should end all accusations that he is a doper?

How much better do you think he would be if he doped like the best of them?

 

[LesDiablesRouges]

This should end all accusations that he is a doper?

How much better do you think he would be if he doped like the best of them?

Weird how it's only him of the main GC contenders that has bad days isn't it. He'd be more consistent climber if he was doping.

 

[hrotha]

Weird how it's only him of the main GC contenders that has bad days isn't it. He'd be more consistent climber if he was doping.

You should take a wee look at history because historically it is super common for even the heaviest dopers to have off days (especially like this, blowing up completely as opposed to merely not performing so well). The truth is bad days tell us virtually nothing about the likelihood that someone dopes

 

[pastronef]

This should end all accusations that he is a doper?

How much better do you think he would be if he doped like the best of them?

you're not following the right antidopers on twitter. he has a bad day because of bad doping.
probably for those lunatics the sun rises every morning because it is doped
by the way, guys on Eurosport said Lefevere said Remco is not sick/ill

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Hopefully this should end any additional nonsense about doping. Weird how how Remco has bad days off days, and yet those same peopel don't point the finger at Jumbo Visma especially with Hessman getting caught.

Having bad days is not a proof of being clean. Jan Ullrich often had bad days in the Tours when he got smashed by Armstrong, that didn't mean he was clean.
Basso shipped 40 minutes on a Giro stage in 2005, he wasn't clean.
Landis lost 10 minutes the day before his insane recovery to Morzine. He wasn't clean.

In general the easy things people like to point to, things like "rider X is always at high level", "rider X is always in insane peak at his season targets", "rider X is not stable" or "rider X doesn't look tired" are all basically meaningless when it comes to answering whether a rider is clean or doped.

 

[proffate]

Having bad days is not a proof of being clean. Jan Ullrich often had bad days in the Tours when he got smashed by Armstrong, that didn't mean he was clean.
Basso shipped 40 minutes on a Giro stage in 2005, he wasn't clean.
Landis lost 10 minutes the day before his insane recovery to Morzine. He wasn't clean.

In general the easy things people like to point to, things like "rider X is always at high level", "rider X is always in insane peak at his season targets", "rider X is not stable" or "rider X doesn't look tired" are all basically meaningless when it comes to answering whether a rider is clean or doped.

Sure, nothing proves they aren't doping. If you (rightly) assume all top riders are doped to different degrees, but that the sport is still worth following, it's because some of them maintain at least the illusion of mortality. Pog and now Remco have both had tremendously human looking days this year, whereas JV and Sky before looked like a robot assembly line, and that's what destroys enjoyment of spectation.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Bad blood bag anyone?

 

[CJCycling]

Can we change the name of this thread to "Remco Evenepoel is the next Lance Armstrong" thread?

Maybe it should be "Remco Evenepoel is the next Floyd Landis". I guess we will see how stage 14 goes for him.

 

[magliaroz]

From losing half an hour yesterday to this... I guess Pogi called and gave him some good advice on how to overcome getting destroyed by JV in one night.

 

[kamaveli]

On days like this it is frustrating that doping speculation is forbidden in almost every place where you can discuss about pro cycling.
There is one pretty good explanation for Remcos sudden resurrection and it is not somekind of mental problem or bad leg day. Cycling community still turns blind eye to doping.

 

[Savant12]

Bad blood bag anyone?

Back on the good stuff today.

 

[nightowl]

All that’s needed is for Bardet to drop and we’ve got a Landis carbon copy

 

[ontheroad]

It really is head scratching how a rider can bonk so terribly and recover so powerfully less than 24 hours later. If he drops Bardet on this final climb it might even rival Lazarus! This sport never ceases to amaze.

 

[Netserk]

It really is head scratching how a rider can bonk so terribly and recover so powerfully less than 24 hours later. If he drops Bardet on this final climb it might even rival Lazarus! This sport never ceases to amaze.

It happened to both Basso and Landis.

 

[Tim Cahill]

This is the funniest blood bag since Mcnulty/Bjerg Tour 2022 at the very least, 150k attack, great entertainment.