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

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Should we change the thread title?


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He is 15 months younger... Forget it mate, he is too far... maybe in other era he would be a multiple tour de france winner, not in this era with 2 aliens, both of them are top5 climbers of all times. This is like Messi vs Ronaldo in football
You chose to correct him, but then you do it wrong. It's 16 months and 4 days. One year, 4 months. September 21st to January 25th.

And there is a lot of talk about Vingegaard's crash, but people seem to forget Evenepoel crashed too and his prep was also heavily hampered, as evident from his performance during the Dauphiné.
 
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Anagraphic gap is too small to believe he has a chance against the aliens, he can win the tour only in nibali style if something happens to the strongest dudes, this assuming another aliens won't came out of nowhere in the next years.


Better going for the giro next year
 
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Can you please just change the title of this thread after the Tour?
by now, you are just mocking the young man who is an excellent bike rider.
The thread title was given during his junior period. He was a better junior than Merckx.
There is never going to be another Merckx. Not even Pogacar. We are all aware, so was the thread creator.

This the Remco that should have showed up at the Dauphine

He'd have been on track to contend had he been where he is now, 4 weeks ago
He would for sure have been better. But i doubt he would have been thát much better, unless he would have been able to start the TDF even lighter. I think in order to really compete with Pog and Vinge here, a better preparation for sure is needed, but he'll need to lose a bit more weight anyway.

The good news is, he doesn't look anything like a skeleton yet, so it's not impossible to lose some extra weight.
 
This the Remco that should have showed up at the Dauphine

He'd have been on track to contend had he been where he is now, 4 weeks ago

Seriously?

He'd need to find 2:51 on one climb versus Pog.

That's quite a bit. At some point you just have to accept there's no natural way that sort of gap can be closed.

No shame either. Evenepoel did a great climb. But what happened in front belongs in a different universe.
 
Wasn’t able to see the race today but performance seems solid compared to others. Also nice to see Landa perform so well. Like Logic said this is something to build on. With a proper preparation and a year extra he should contest them more.

I also hope that he tries to attack in the third week. He’s far ahead of number 4, and I think UAE would give him a bit of leeway.
 
Good, not great. Needs to lose a kg and get a year under his belt to stand a chance.
I don't know; we've got the hardest week yet to come and he's already over 5 minutes behind Pog and could easily be over 10 minutes down before this is all over. It will be very interesting to see how he handles the 3rd week, and especially the last TT. I'm a huge fan and over the moon to see how well he is riding, but the gap between him and Pog/Ving just seems so massive, I'm not sure just losing a kg and another year is going to be remotely enough to close it. He's a massive talent but unfortunately riding in the same era as two of the best climber/GT talents of all time. I would love to be proven wrong of course...
 
Can you please just change the title of this thread after the Tour?
by now, you are just mocking the young man who is an excellent bike rider.
I think you have a wrong impression on this my friend, it’s not meant that way. Allow me to pontificate…

It’s easily the best thread title on the board. It’s an homage to his Belgian heritage, his dominance as a junior, as well as a self deprecating joke about how many other riders have been pronounced the “next Merckx” on this and other boards.

The kid is doing great. The haters are losing all hope right now, what are they gonna say now?
 
I don't know; we've got the hardest week yet to come and he's already over 5 minutes behind Pog and could easily be over 10 minutes down before this is all over. It will be very interesting to see how he handles the 3rd week, and especially the last TT. I'm a huge fan and over the moon to see how well he is riding, but the gap between him and Pog/Ving just seems so massive, I'm not sure just losing a kg and another year is going to be remotely enough to close it. He's a massive talent but unfortunately riding in the same era as two of the best climber/GT talents of all time. I would love to be proven wrong of course...

He needs the 90s early 2000 courses where there were several diesel MTFs and 2 very long ITTs (plus an exceptionally long TTT and a prologue)

I'd really love to see that battle. Lets see Pog do a couple of flat 60km ITTs plus a TTT and prologue. Make Remco have to get through 3 mountain stages of today's length and climbing meters.

I suspect Vingo would win on that course
 
He needs the 90s early 2000 courses where there were several diesel MTFs and 2 very long ITTs (plus an exceptionally long TTT and a prologue)

I'd really love to see that battle. Lets see Pog do a couple of flat 60km ITTs plus a TTT and prologue. Make Remco have to get through 3 mountain stages of today's length and climbing meters.

I suspect Vingo would win on that course
I was just thinking the exact same thing as this; some serious Indurain level time trials. It would be a lot of fun to watch and to anyone who might think the long TT's would kill the GC, I'd ask "What would be the difference between that and what we're seeing today?" I've been in the camp for quite some time that rues the emphasis on climbing at the expense of TT's, this may be a very good time to try at least one edition which balances the two out more. I've never been in love with TTT's as I always thought they had too outsized an impact on GC but I know some people have made the not invalid point that the impact on team selection can make a big difference as well. Food for thought and I wouldn't be surprised to see it; ASO is not going to love seeing what we just saw today for the next several years...
 
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Wasn’t able to see the race today but performance seems solid compared to others. Also nice to see Landa perform so well. Like Logic said this is something to build on. With a proper preparation and a year extra he should contest them more.

I also hope that he tries to attack in the third week. He’s far ahead of number 4, and I think UAE would give him a bit of leeway.
Yeah, it would be great if Remco attacks with Landa, and who knows maybe they can both get the podium if one of the 2 monsters have a big issue