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Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

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Logic-is-your-friend said:
Well, that has nothing to do with it. I have always been convinced of his potential and i have always liked him as a rider, i think that much was obvious from this thread. I think had he gone to UAE in 2019, he would have already won the TDF. My frustration comes from this ridiculous narrative that he supposedly is not able to get his climbing weight down without a Giro '21 or Vuelta '23 scenario happen (while he was a lot more heavy that last time, but for that his weight is never mentioned). If the 61.5kg is true (and they achieved that riskfree), he is not far off of what i think would put him in dominator mode (by which i mean ballpark Vingegaard/Pogacar). But that's simply not going to happen when he's waggling around looking like a pastry.
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Here's hoping to Soudal knowing how to extract his full potential at this Tour and then build upon it. On the ridiculous narrative, it's as if Soudal doesn't take into account his Giro 21 was caused by precipitous entry, while the Vuelta 23 was owing to making a priority of the WITT. His optimal weight depends on how light he can be without losing power, but under optimal preparation. Neither of those cases fit the bill.
 
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Here's hoping to Soudal knowing how to extract his full potential at this Tour and then build upon it. On the ridiculous narrative, it's as if Soudal doesn't take into account his Giro 21 was caused by precipitous entry, while the Vuelta 23 was owing to making a priority of the WITT. His optimal weight depends on how light he can be without losing power, but under optimal preparation. Neither of those cases fit the bill.
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Personally i do not expect them to "unlock" his full potential this TDF. But hopefully he can get close enough that he can show he can make life hard of the two GT dominators in the future if he takes a few more steps. I don't know how close he will ever get, or if he will ever get to that level, but if he isn't able to distance himself (in a positive way) from riders as Jorgenson, Hindley, Vlasov, Almeida, Rodriguez etc... that he is being wasted on this team and that they have not nearly unlocked his full potential.

velaso montador said:
Never found myself wanting this guy to succeed as much as I do this year in this Tour and I have no idea why either, guess im just a sucker for talent in general.
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Probably because he's had his share of both misfortune as well as haters who fail to see how good he really is/can be.
 
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Logic-is-your-friend said:
Personally i do not expect them to "unlock" his full potential this TDF. But hopefully he can get close enough that he can show he can make life hard of the two GT dominators in the future if he takes a few more steps. I don't know how close he will ever get, or if he will ever get to that level, but if he isn't able to distance himself (in a positive way) from riders as Jorgenson, Hindley, Vlasov, Almeida, Rodriguez etc... that he is being wasted on this team and that they have not nearly unlocked his full potential.


Probably because he's had his share of both misfortune as well as haters who fail to see how good he really is/can be.
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Thats what its all about for me too with Remco this Tour. Unlock some keys in his GT adventure which has been missing. The talent and potential is undisputed so if he could unlock some in that aspect it would lit. People bashing him is sad and wierd he is talent wice the second best talent in the sport and people are not best at GT normally at 24, actually on the contrary if you go by history so he has all the possibility to become huge and maby its that I wanne se how high he can fly with that potential.

Those might be some reason why i want him to succeed I have no idea but also I am a sucker for talent and his talent is undisputed.
 
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AmRacer said:
Who is the best talent? Mathieu?
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I guess depends on how you view and value it i guess to some degree. Pogacar nr 1 ofcourse but Mvdp talent is indeed insane and kinda out of this world in his area but overall Remco is more talented that was my point.

Vingegaard is for me more like Mvdp. On pure talent I would put either Mvdp or Remco second depends what you value I guess. Sorry about that wasnt my intention to make it into that..
 
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Valv.Piti said:
He looks sharp!
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He looks more like Groenewegen than Vingegaard.

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