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

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I might be wrong but I think this win makes Remco the first rider to win all of the following:
-WCTT
-Olympic TT
-Continental TT championship
-a Giro TT
-a Tour TT
-a Vuelta TT
Impressively this is still true even if we exclude the european championship which is a relatively new race of questionable importance. And all that at just 24 years of age. He really looks like the definitive TT rider of his generation.

Edit: dammit I was beaten
 
I might be wrong but I think this win makes Remco the first rider to win all of the following:
-WCTT
-Olympic TT
-Continental TT championship
-a Giro TT
-a Tour TT
-a Vuelta TT
Impressively this is still true even if we exclude the european championship which is a relatively new race of questionable importance. And all that at just 24 years of age. He really looks like the definitive TT rider of his generation.

Edit: dammit I was beaten
Only Hour record is missing.
 
I remember getting flamed by the forum, for stating that Ganna was lucky in 2020 and 2021 that Evenepoel crashed in 2020, because that -unlike popular opinion at the time- Ganna was not a better TT'er. Almost as hilarious as me getting flamed for stating in 2022 that Evenepoel was a more talented TT'er than Küng by a great margin, and that him beating Küng by a few seconds meant it was actually a bad TT for Evenepoel. Good times.
 
I remember getting flamed by the forum, for stating that Ganna was lucky in 2020 and 2021 that Evenepoel crashed in 2020, because that -unlike popular opinion at the time- Ganna was not a better TT'er. Almost as hilarious as me getting flamed for stating in 2022 that Evenepoel was a more talented TT'er than Küng by a great margin, and that him beating Küng by a few seconds meant it was actually a bad TT for Evenepoel. Good times.
Spot on.
 
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