Teams & Riders The marvelous Victor Campenaerts, cult hero, thread

[Monte Serra]

Campenaerts is facing an uphill battle against Pinot for the super-combativity. So please retweet, if you can:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1682793833388556291

View: https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1682793833388556291

 

[Samamba]

Campenaerts is facing an uphill battle against Pinot for the super-combativity. So please retweet, if you can:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1682793833388556291

View: https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1682793833388556291

Impossible to win against the French twitter mob sadly, definitely afterhis emotional ride today.
Hope the jury is a bit less chauvinistic and gives it to Campenaerts, Pedersen or Neilands.

 

[Rob5091]

Congrats to Campenaerts on the Super Combativity Award (and 20,000 Euros)
https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/tour-de-france/ticker-2/

Lotto-Dstny racer Victor Campenaerts has been voted the ‘super-combative’ rider of the 2023 Tour de France.

The Belgian got into five breakaways during the race. On stage 18 to Bourg-en-Bresse, he drove the four-man group in the finale to ensure they would stay away. Kasper Asgreen outsprinted his teammate Pascal Eeenkhoorn for victory.

The prize was decided by a combination of a jury and the public voice. Last year’s award winner was Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma).

 

[Rob5091]

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...-his-tough-first-cycling-steps-in-jumbo-visma
So we can blame Campenaerts for all the messing around weighing food at Jumbo now?
(quote)
"Gesink observed how I was weighing the food. When about ten riders were sitting at the table, he spoke. 'Guys, you should watch it. We have something new here. Here comes someone with a scale for breakfast.' I can tell you that it was tough. If Gesink, the big man of that team, says something about you, that is something different than when a rider from Topsport Vlaanderen says something."

"Gesink made it clear that he was not in favor of sitting at the table with a scale. There was a lot of laughter about that in the team, but I persisted in bringing those scales with me. Nowadays, no one eats breakfast without a scale, including Robert Gesink. My relationship with Robert at that time was not really good. When I see him now we always have a cordial conversation. I should actually ask him if he still thinks back to that moment."(end quote)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...-his-tough-first-cycling-steps-in-jumbo-visma
So we can blame Camenaerts for all the messing around weighing food at Jumbo now?
(quote)
"Gesink observed how I was weighing the food. When about ten riders were sitting at the table, he spoke. 'Guys, you should watch it. We have something new here. Here comes someone with a scale for breakfast.' I can tell you that it was tough. If Gesink, the big man of that team, says something about you, that is something different than when a rider from Topsport Vlaanderen says something."

"Gesink made it clear that he was not in favor of sitting at the table with a scale. There was a lot of laughter about that in the team, but I persisted in bringing those scales with me. Nowadays, no one eats breakfast without a scale, including Robert Gesink. My relationship with Robert at that time was not really good. When I see him now we always have a cordial conversation. I should actually ask him if he still thinks back to that moment."(end quote)

The success of JV started when they stopped eating hagelslag for breakfast,

 

[staubsauger]

Rasmussen used to weight his food like an accountant already before at Rabobank!

So I don't think Campenaerts is the one to blame.

 

[Rob5091]

Rasmussen used to weight his food like an accountant already before at Rabobank!

So I don't think Campenaerts is the one to blame.

I would not be surprised if Rasmussen was the first either, but it was an interesting story from Campenaerts about Gesink and others reaction.