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

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Unchained

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Berniece said:
Not much to talk about the next few months. They’ll probably announce his schedule in January. He can take some leave, charge his batteries, and reduce the gap with Pogacar
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He will certainly do all those things and probably do dangerous to semi dangerous experiments w his weight. He has a proven power to weight ratio that is the envy of everyone except a select few. Remco will need to do more climbing volume. Traditionally that means losing speed for majority of riders. Seldom do you see a TT world champ who can keep pace in mountains of grand tours..are GTs what Remco still wants..? Going to have to tweak something.. What will it be?
 
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Unchained said:
He will certainly do all those things and probably do dangerous to semi dangerous experiments w his weight. He has a proven power to weight ratio that is the envy of everyone except a select few. Remco will need to do more climbing volume. Traditionally that means losing speed for majority of riders. Seldom do you see a TT world champ who can keep pace in mountains of grand tours..are GTs what Remco still wants..? Going to have to tweak something.. What will it be?
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GT’s and his weight. He won everything there is to win in TT’s. Also when it comes to monuments and classics, he won everything he wanted to win besides Lombardia. Focus is completely on GT’s now. I hope he tries to stay as lean as during the TDF throughout the season, while losing another 1-1.5kg extra for the TDF.
 
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He will certainly do all those things and probably do dangerous to semi dangerous experiments w his weight. He has a proven power to weight ratio that is the envy of everyone except a select few. Remco will need to do more climbing volume. Traditionally that means losing speed for majority of riders. Seldom do you see a TT world champ who can keep pace in mountains of grand tours..are GTs what Remco still wants..? Going to have to tweak something.. What will it be?
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He is not a typical TT world champ. His weight and size make him exceptional in that category. That's why he can be one of the best climbers too. The only problem is: what can he do to close the gap? Not crashing prior to the TdF and adding all marginal gains he can find helps but is it enough? His performance at the latest TdF was probably good enough to win the last 20 editions except the 2024 TdF.

I am not sure we can expect much more from him. We should not, actually, and give him credit for all the amazing things he does. UAE has the money and power to keep Pogi in the hot seat at the TdF and for Vingegaard and his innovative team it's his only real big goal of the season. I am not saying Remco should give up the dream. He should maximize his opportunities. The TdF should have been a goal in 2023 already. However I think it would be a loss for cycling if it becomes his only focus. He has much more to offer.
 
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Basically no reason to believe he's further from his ceiling than Vingegaard and Pogacar. All of them have been at the WT for the same amount of time.

To me his Tour level was the continuation of the 2022 Vuelta and 2023 Catalunya.
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Even if he's further (which I don't believe), the gap is huge. In a normal day, Pogacar can gain 2 minutes on a a hard MTF (and hard stage). Remco needs to find an extra 30 watts to compete with Vingegaard and specially Pogacar and expect both of them don't improve next year.
 
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Even if he's further (which I don't believe), the gap is huge. In a normal day, Pogacar can gain 2 minutes on a a hard MTF (and hard stage). Remco needs to find an extra 30 watts to compete with Vingegaard and specially Pogacar and expect both of them don't improve next year.
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In all 5 big mountain stages he finished closer to Almeida and Landa than to Pogacar. Maybe they can close the gap to Evenepoel?
 
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