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

[kingjr]

I think having a winner's mentality is showing a willingness to do whatever it takes to win (excluding illegal means), how exactly that plays out depends on each individual rider and circumstances.

 

[Netserk]

I think having a winner's mentality is showing a willingness to do whatever it takes to win (excluding illegal means), how exactly that plays out depends on each individual rider and circumstances.

Vino and Contador are the first that comes to my mind.

 

[peterfin]

Naturally Gemini craps out the standard motivational speech stuff out for 'winning mentality' and we're really only talking in circles because people always equate mentality with outcome when the athlete they like wins and talk about poor menality when the athlete they dislike loses.

Why? because it's inherently *** lazy.

So within that, if you're going to use specific definitions of winning mentality, I'm going to be able to give counterexamples to show why it's wrong. And complaining about cherry picking itself is just an often used crutch for poor argumentation anyway.

In this case, Evenepoel blaming things outside of his own control for losses is not a one time event. It's something he does all the time.

You are mixing up his extroverted character with his mentality. Sometimes he is right, sometimes he overreacts and sometimes he is wrong and you need to give him a moment to see things clearly.