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Rackham

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Alaphilippe should be racing Lombardia as well ergo DQS will be stacked with top quality & options for the race.
 
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Red Rick

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Rackham said:
Alaphilippe should be racing Lombardia as well ergo DQS will be stacked with top quality & options for the race.
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I can't decide if Alaphilippe was just super great 2 weeks after the Worlds last year or if Vlaanderen secretly suits him better than Liege.

The final hill in Bergamo has Alaphilippe's name all over it to be fair.

Meanwhile, little sad that Evenepoel is riding Bernocchi instead of Tre Valli or Milano Torino between Emilia and Lombardia.
 
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Mayomaniac

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Red Rick said:
I can't decide if Alaphilippe was just super great 2 weeks after the Worlds last year or if Vlaanderen secretly suits him better than Liege.

The final hill in Bergamo has Alaphilippe's name all over it to be fair.

Meanwhile, little sad that Evenepoel is riding Bernocchi instead of Tre Valli or Milano Torino between Emilia and Lombardia.
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To me Ala has always been better at shorter efforts (see F-W) that are clearly sub 5min.
 
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Red Rick

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Mayomaniac said:
To me Ala has always been better at shorter efforts (see F-W) that are clearly sub 5min.
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Yeah, but I didn't really consider that the ~1 minute hills in De Ronde suited him so much until he first rode it.

It makes me a bit puzzled at his lacklustre results in Amstel, but Ala just never properly peaks for that one.
 
Mayomaniac

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Red Rick said:
Yeah, but I didn't really consider that the ~1 minute hills in De Ronde suited him so much until he first rode it.

It makes me a bit puzzled at his lacklustre results in Amstel, but Ala just never properly peaks for that one.
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He was one of the strongest, maybe even the strongest, riders when MvdP won the Amstel.
 
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Plot twist:
There is a documentary next Sunday on Belgian tv with images from the Belgian car. It seems indeed, from the first footage, that evenepoel was supposed to cover dangerous moves, even from far out, but there were guys from the team next to the road with signs. Remco ignored a “Do not pull” sign and Vanthourenhout wasn’t happy when he saw that during the race.
Vanthourenhout also noticed that remco pulled way too much (“he is almost dropping declercq several times” Vanthourenhout noticed).
They also noticed that evenepoel was driving very hard before the finale, and that he “would have lasted another round” if he took it a bit easier.

This confirms my thoughts that remco obeyed team orders, but with a rebellious twist, just to show the outside world he was this good.
And while I said before it's mostly Vanthourenhout to blame, I feel Remco, especially after his TV appearance, should take a really good look in the mirror before he says all kinds of thinks in a very (played?) naive way, claiming he only did what he was asked to do.

So he pretended to be a teamplayer, and clearly this was against his nature. You could even say merckx was right: Remco is not used to working for others, and with his talent, he will probably never learn this. But should he?
Because you could say that you shouldn’t try to tame a wild horse like remco. Just let him roam free…
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Did you see the docu yesterday? I missed it.

I'm guessing they didn't show anything spectacular or controversial since I haven't seen anything in the press so far?
 
Bardamu

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Red Rick said:
Yeah, but I didn't really consider that the ~1 minute hills in De Ronde suited him so much until he first rode it.

It makes me a bit puzzled at his lacklustre results in Amstel, but Ala just never properly peaks for that one.
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He's quite consistent in Amstel.
 
Logic-is-your-friend

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Berflamand said:
Did you see the docu yesterday? I missed it.

I'm guessing they didn't show anything spectacular or controversial since I haven't seen anything in the press so far?
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I honestly was searching for it and did't find it either. Now I have to go back and search where I read this...
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I saw it, you can watch it on VRTnu for the next month, for free if you missed it: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/alles-voor-goud/2021/alles-voor-goud/

Basically, what they said was Remco needed to be "present" and covering attacks even early (from what i got from the context). But when Radio Tour called his bib number when he went along with Cosnefroy, they were a bit surprised. They weren't happy when he started pulling in the break so fiercely even after a sign to not pull at the side of the road, making Vanthourenhout say "is dit een grap ofwa?" ("is this a joke or something)" to add later "als 'm dat binnen 100km ook nog kan is't goed" ("if he can still do this a 100km down the road, it's fine") which Remco did. After Evenepoel went off the front in Leuven and his race was done Pauwels told Vanthourenhout Remco had given everything for the team, and they seemed happy with his performance after all. Vanthourenhout did say, if he would have ridden a bit less intensely, he could have lasted another lap.
 
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Extinction

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Ha, ha Stefano Garzelli on the RAI commetary (Coppa Bernocchi) said that Evenepoel was all too zealous with performing team duties for Belgium at the World's, but that Belgium should have deployed him differently reserving Evenepoel for the end, who, even if not the designated captain, merited more consideration based on his form. Analisi perfetto! And that, according to Garzelli, the rivalry between Van Aert and Evenepoel is destined to go on for years to come. I would not want to be the Belgian national coach as a result. Oh the nightmare.
 
KZD

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He now has more wins than years of age, 22, can't wait for Il Lombardia.
 
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red_flanders

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Jagartrott said:
Can we now conclude that "he's back" - i.e. he really has overcome his career-threatening injury?
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I think Lombardia will be a better indicator if he‘s 100% back. The riders he was trouncing in the lead up to Lombardia last year were in another level that the crew today. He may be, we shall see. But the competition will be fierce this time.
 
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Red Rick

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red_flanders said:
I think Lombardia will be a better indicator if he‘s 100% back. The riders he was trouncing in the lead up to Lombardia last year were in another level that the crew today. He may be, we shall see. But the competition will be fierce this time.
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Imagine watching a race like today or the Euros then still wanting to use the excuse if he doesn't perform to expectations later on
 
Logic-is-your-friend

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red_flanders said:
I think Lombardia will be a better indicator if he‘s 100% back. The riders he was trouncing in the lead up to Lombardia last year were in another level that the crew today. He may be, we shall see. But the competition will be fierce this time.
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Last year he would have won Lombardia, i'm sure of that. But the competition this year is quite a bit stronger. A similar performance might not even get you a top 5 this year.
 
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Is Lombardia Remco's last race of the year ? Then it will be the quest to become 10% better during the winter and "the coming of age" in 2022 . Or at least that's what half of Belgium is longing for ...

In all honesty , currently with riders like Remco , Wout , Mathieu , Pogacar , etc... I find cycling the most exciting sport to watch . And this is coming from a tennis / soccer "nut" .
And I am sure great times lay ahead of us in the coming years .
 
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red_flanders

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Logic-is-your-friend said:
Last year he would have won Lombardia, i'm sure of that. But the competition this year is quite a bit stronger. A similar performance might not even get you a top 5 this year.
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I am sure he’d have won as well. I think in last year’s form I’d put down a bet on top 5 this year.
 
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