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

[scribers]

He won’t be a factor the rest of this season. He’s better off relaxing and focusing on a big goal next year

 

[KoopaCycling]

I dunno. i see him winning tour of britain at the very least (if he rides it)

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

that’s why Jorgensen handed remco his ass in P-N and we all thought remco was washed up as a GC rider

Who's we?

 

[scribers]

Who's we?

I speak for everyone here

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

I speak for everyone here

Lol, no.

 

[Berflamand]

Double Olympic Champion in dominant fashion, just incredible!

While I realise the Olympics aren't the most important thing in cycling, the Olympics actually are much bigger than cycling and this achievement makes him the greatest Belgian male Olympic athlete in history I think.

Only the European RR is left now to complete the collection of all possible Championship Titles. While at this point in his career a European title might not exactly be a major target, I still hope he goes for it at least once to try and complete the set.

He was obviously never lacking in the confidence department but I feel like he gained an extra level of confidence with his TDF podium. He told his teammates after the recon exactly where he would attack during the race and he thought about his victory salute before the race when he saw the backdrop at the finish line. The only thing he didn't anticipate was bringing his TT gold medal with him for the picture sessions but luckily there was Oumi who took care of that.

 

[EddyMazzoleni]

He’s a single peak rider

You were pushing the same theory this winter when VdP was winning crosses left and right, saying he would not have achieved anything in the classics.

 

[scribers]

You were pushing the same theory this winter when VdP was winning crosses left and right, saying he would not have achieved anything in the classics.

I ate my hat then. But mvp is a 5 month plateau rider with one or two peaks. He has not been impressive since April

 

[Flurk1982]

I speak for everyone here

Next peak this year is WC.

 

[Red Rick]

Maybe on the limit?

But I cant see why he wouldn't compete on a route which suits him when it fits his calender, but then again, that could be never really.

Euro champs don't really clash hard with anything? It's kinda can be yolo'd into the schedule whenever.

Though maybe it's too late after the Tour to throw in if you wanna do Tour and then focus on the Worlds if it's in the mid August slot.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Euro champs don't really clash hard with anything? It's kinda can be yolo'd into the schedule whenever.

Though maybe it's too late after the Tour to throw in if you wanna do Tour and then focus on the Worlds if it's in the mid August slot.

Yes, your last sentence was exactly what I was thinking about. Almost every Worlds parcours really makes sense for Remco to target, and he will be doing the Tour for a while now. Even freaking Copenhagen he could win.

 

[Red Rick]

Yes, your last sentence was exactly what I was thinking about. Almost every Worlds parcours really makes sense for Remco to target, and he will be doing the Tour for a while now. Even freaking Copenhagen he could win.

Copenhagen? Nah. It's just way too easy and gets full sprint trains at the end.

Super hard parcourses on the other hand are probably just automatic Pogacar wins

 

[Valv.Piti]

Copenhagen? Nah. It's just way too easy and gets full sprint trains at the end.

Super hard parcourses on the other hand are probably just automatic Pogacar wins

I guess my point is that on 90% of the routes Remco will have a decent shot to a very, very good chance of winning in top shappe.

 

[scribers]

Next peak this year is WC.

Why do you guys do this to yourself? He's resurrected his legend with a podium in the tour and Olympics. You go and knock down his legend expecting such things.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So the Olympic double, congrats! Remco is the true golden boy of cycling - 4 golds won in worldwide championships (WC and Olympics) so far and in 3 of those competitions he's the reigning champion.

 

[Andre]

I have been traveling so I didn't get a chance to congratulate our great Remco. He did what I thought: two Gold Medals...

 

[Berniece]

Why do you guys do this to yourself? He's resurrected his legend with a podium in the tour and Olympics. You go and knock down his legend expecting such things.

Just because you peak doesn’t automatically mean you will win. No one is saying he’ll win by default.

 

[Flurk1982]

Why do you guys do this to yourself? He's resurrected his legend with a podium in the tour and Olympics. You go and knock down his legend expecting such things.

This is how he is: a real championship rider. He wants to defend his WC ITT title. Both the ITT route and RR route suits him very well. After a short break he will go on altitude camp, followed by brittain or renewi tour and ecc itt.

 

[red_flanders]

I've never been overly bothered by Lefevre, but this stuff... I mean dude. Just shut up for a minute. It's definitely NOT about you.

"There are always two in the team who cheer right away: Geert Coeman and I but then we always immediately think: how much is that going to cost?" Lefevere said, referring to Soudal-QuickStep's CFO.


"People think I'm a monkey in that respect, but they don't have to pay him. How much? It is more than enough. That is still a legacy from three years ago when Mr Ralph Denk put a proposal on the table."


"He earned it. Although it remains a shame that our sponsors get little to no benefit from it," Lefevered added, highlighting the limited publicity a team or sponsor can develop from Olympic success due to the International Olympic Committee's strict protection of its branding.

"That photo under the Eiffel Tower is really beautiful. It will probably get a place in my office somewhere."

Of course you sponsor benefits from having a riders whose fame just increased dramatically, and who now will be called "...the [x]-time Olympic champion" for the rest of his career.

Maybe give it a couple weeks before you start in about how all this affects YOU.

Complete muppet.

 

[ManicJack]

I've never been overly bothered by Lefevre, but this stuff... I mean dude. Just shut up for a minute. It's definitely NOT about you.


Of course you sponsor benefits from having a riders whose fame just increased dramatically, and who now will be called "...the [x]-time Olympic champion" for the rest of his career.

Maybe give it a couple weeks before you start in about how all this affects YOU.

Complete muppet.

Unless you've seen metrics that prove otherwise, I'd say he's a lot closer to the truth than you might realize.

 

[red_flanders]

Unless you've seen metrics that prove otherwise, I'd say he's a lot closer to the truth than you might realize.

I think I realize the situation pretty well. There's not zero value in it. I also get his point, I just don't care right now.

I simply think he should have kept all of that to himself, at least for another week or two. The class response if he was specifically asked about the financial ramifications (and I have no idea if he was or not, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt), would have been to say, "Let's just enjoy two great wins for Belgium right now, we can talk about money later". But he had to make it about himself, several times.

Egocentric and classless...but mostly...unnecessary.

 

[scribers]

Lefevre is loss-splaining. He knows he’s about to lose remco. Can hope for a buyout

 

[red_flanders]

Lefevre is loss-splaining. He knows he’s about to lose remco. Can hope for a buyout

He's trying to get his asking price out there. Article here, should have linked above.

"If someone says tomorrow: 'This is annual salary, we will double that and add a little bit more', then I might be able to accept it," Het Nieuwsblad reported him as saying.

 

[Oldermanish]

Unless you've seen metrics that prove otherwise, I'd say he's a lot closer to the truth than you might realize.

The team and rider almost always have media exposure incentives that benefit them for this kind of success. He's always been pre-emptive (usually in the negative sense) to change in expected performance. It comes off as bush league with Remco's PR windfall at this Olympics. Patrick can only milk that success so long but the rider's estimate of the value of two Golds may be much higher. I don't know why I even stated it as "may be"; they most certainly do. Simone Biles will make more than $7m in endorsement income. That sounds stellar to a cyclist until they find out NBA pros, golfers and tennis folks playing in the Olympics earn $100m (+) on up in addition to their actual sporting contracts for team players.

 

[Extinction]

Clearly the Tour benefitted Remco, whose level at the Olympics was super. And yet, as we look ahead to the future the 9+ minutes down on Pogacar at the Tour, despite climbing and TTing so well, is a massive gap to close if he hopes to take yellow.