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Extinction

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Remco in a long post on Instagram talked about a broken rib at the Belgian champs and exhaustion in the build-up to the Tour, due to lacking winter base after the incident and thus always chasing form, which never really arrived. But he didn't want to not start the Tour.
 
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Extinction said:
Remco in a long post on Instagram talked about a broken rib at the Belgian champs and exhaustian in the build-up to the Tour, due to lacking winter base after the incident and thus always chasing form, which never really arrived. But he didn't want to not start the Tour.
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If what he's saying now is the whole truth, then he was running on hopium, which is understandable.

He finished the Tour with a stage win and empty legs, but more importantly, no crashes and no injuries. So it wasn't a total loss. It may actually be a learning episode in his career.

At 2024 he was unanimously considered 3rd best. Depending on the Vuelta 2025 he may drop a few places. It's up to him to put in the work during the winter so he can come back stronger in 2026 and show us his new level.
 
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Prim said:
San Sebastian is now off his schedule on PCS. If anyone was holding their breath.
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Was too be expected, wonder when they’ll announce his new schedule. He should follow WVA to Deutschland Tour. He can help Magnier get some wins there
 
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houtdffan said:
cyclinguptodate.com

€2 million buyout, staff and a DS - As more details are reported, Remco Evenepoel's move to BORA looks inevitable

Remco Evenepoel was a product of Soudal - Quick-Step's development and has become it's big start in the 2020's. Evenepoel's surge brought alongside it a whole new aspect to pro cycling when it came to...
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Wouldn't it have made more sense for Red Bull to just buy QS? Tey seem to want to go through the trouble of turning the former Bora team into QS 2.0
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Belgium needs a Belgian team.
 
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It is known with a very high degree of certainty that the German team will sign Mattia Cattaneo who was Evenepoel's right-hand man at this Tour until his withdrawal, and also former Belgian national coach Sven Vanthourenhout. But according to La Dernière Heure the team will also sign Quick-Step DS Klaas Lodewyck, team mechanic Dario Kloek and soigneur David Geeroms.
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Would be absolutely great!!!! As long as Remco stays in QS.
 
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Berniece

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houtdffan said:
cyclinguptodate.com

€2 million buyout, staff and a DS - As more details are reported, Remco Evenepoel's move to BORA looks inevitable

Remco Evenepoel was a product of Soudal - Quick-Step's development and has become it's big start in the 2020's. Evenepoel's surge brought alongside it a whole new aspect to pro cycling when it came to...
cyclinguptodate.com cyclinguptodate.com

Wouldn't it have made more sense for Red Bull to just buy QS? Tey seem to want to go through the trouble of turning the former Bora team into QS 2.0
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Everything of that story is fine except Lodewyck. He doesn’t need a DS-yes-man
 
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Valv.Piti said:
Bro I was about to quote this exact thing. Im sure Logic is thrilled about Klaas joining Remco at Bora!
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Yeah man, i'm celebrating right now, with 10 hookers, half a kilo of snort and a crate of wodka.
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houtdffan said:
the team may as well be called Red Bull - Quickstep at this point
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Bit of an exaggeration. A team employs 75-100 people, without the riders. Evenepoel taking along his soigneur who he has known since he was a child, his mechanic and a director doesn't really change much.
 
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So when is it realistic to see him race again?
He takes a few weeks holiday now and can start light training next week or the week after.
2 weeks of easy riding and then slowly increase the load.
End of August, at earliest, real training and if needed, altitude camp. Start racing mid September.
 
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