Whats your problem, really? We choose to root for whoever we like. Im not shaming you for rooting for Remco, but it seems you are trying to do that to me. Why you do that I have no clue other than that I know it must be extremely hard for you to grasp not necessarily rooting for countrymen since being Belgian seems to be enough for you to root for them.Because all Belgians are required by cult, blood, law and peer pressure to root for Belgians. You know this. You don't think I rooted for Van Wilder to beat him at the WCC?
On a serious note, it is different because he is indeed a countryman, which you have wilfully rejected to then cheer for... Real Madrid.
And you definitely wouldn't have liked to root for a Belgian Eddy Merckx reincarnitated. That would have been boring! And you still didnt really answer my question - why do you root for Evenepoel in time trials? Thats so boring!