This disturbs me more than anything Remco said, in all honesty.
Why?
Remco said the same thing over and over again before Worlds, being that he was 100% committed to helping Van Aert become the new World Champion, that he was their to be a dom and not a leader, and so on. Even in the teammeeting he doesn't say anything.
Then out of the blue he asks the Belgian DS if he can get his own chance just before the race starts? And then a few days later he starts criticizing his teams tactics?
I would be annoyed too if I was Van Aert. It's just incredibly fake from Remco, he said those things before Worlds because he knew he would get shitted on by the press and Belgian fans otherwise and now that he sees the Belgian press in its hypocritical nature (everyone and their mother was fine with Van Aert being the sole leader before the race), he saw his chance to hop on that train.
Look, I don't like Vanthourenhout, it's *** stupid that he got the job in the first place, literally had no experience with road cycling, and I do think afterwards that the teams tactics were pretty dumb overall, but it's bloody time another rider like Van Aert says what he thinks about the kid.
Also let's stop acting like completely emptying himself was because he got the orders to do so. Vanthourenhout already said immediately after the race that he did that on his own (probably to prove a point) and that there was no way of communicating to him on time to stop doing it.