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

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Fair question, I will try to find out the article.

He's been an athlete for his entire life though. It's not like he starts from 0. If he did, he wouldn't be able to win races within 3 months of his first race.

How do you pronounce his name?

Listen to the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/sporza-661716440/evenepoel-ik-wil-later-gewoon-de-beste-zijn

at 2 minutes 55 seconds, they pronounce his name.

 

[DNP-Old]

98k to go and he has placed his first attack in the national championships. Robbe Claeys the only one (able?) to follow.

 

[DNP-Old]

Claeys dropped, insane solo no. 5 incoming.

 

[janraaskalt]

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Claeys dropped, insane solo no. 5 incoming.

Less than 80 kilometers solo. No talent at all.

 

[DNP-Old]

En tête : Remco EVENEPOEL (Acrog-Pauwels Sauzen Juniors);

à 1'42", 12 poursuivants : Jarne VAN GRIEKEN (Van Moer Logistics CT), Milan FRETIN(Van Moer Logistics CT), Liam SLOCK (Van Moer Logistics CT), Jarno BELLENS (Acrog-Pauwels Sauzen Juniors), Witse MEEUSSEN (Callant-Doltcini CT), Maxim DEWULF (Callant), Joren THYS (PIE-Optiek Theorie-Blokken CT Glabbeek), Milan PAULUS (PIE-Optiek Theorie-Blokken CT Glabbeek), Aaron VAN DER BEKEN (Onder Ons Parike), Vito BRAET(Forte U19 CT), Nathan DECUYPERE (CT Soenens-Booom), Robbe CLAEYS (Isorex CT Junior).

à 2'20", le peloton;

It's over.

 

[Flamin]

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this Sunday the national champs road race in the Ardennes. I'm going with a 70k solo

Close enough.

 

[DNP-Old]

He's about to finish, currently on the last ascent of Petit Poggio, and his lead is more than 4 minutes.

 

[Red Rick]

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Claeys dropped, insane solo no. 5 incoming.

Less than 80 kilometers solo. No talent at all.

At least this one doesn't come out of nowhere.

 

[classicomano]

 

[Hugo Koblet]

This kid...

 

[classicomano]

He'll probably lap the entire field in Innsbruck halfway through. Should be alot of fun.

 

[Baldinger]

This is too good to be true.

 

[El Pistolero]

What a talent.

Hopefully he can break through quickly, like Nafi Thiam did in Track and Field (21 years old when she became Olympic Champion).

 

[Red Rick]

Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

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What a talent.

Hopefully he can break through quickly, like Nafi Thiam did in Track and Field (21 years old when she became Olympic Champion).

I would find that quite amazing but don't forget women tend to peak earlier if we're talking about using your full potential.

 

[Gigs_98]

Is it too early to open angling thread?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Some shaky-phone video's after the victory http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrennen/1.3204382

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

 

[Red Rick]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

Yeah. I guess the team he goes to next year rides 2.2 races?

 

[El Pistolero]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

His time to win the Belgian TT Championships was also faster than the fastest time at the Espoirs. Same course of course.

 

[Red Rick]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

His time to win the Belgian TT Championships was also faster than the fastest time at the Espoirs. Same course of course.

That's pretty impressive if the weather was comparable.

And if it was the same length ofcourse

 

[El Pistolero]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

Yeah. I guess the team he goes to next year rides 2.2 races?

He will ride the Tour of California and Tour of Utah next year.

He has a lot of adoration for Contador, a climber with a good TT (that's what he wants to become).

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

His time to win the Belgian TT Championships was also faster than the fastest time at the Espoirs. Same course of course.

That's pretty impressive if the weather was comparable.

And if it was the same length ofcourse

Obviously. The article a few pages back also mentions it. He rode a smaller gear and was 8 seconds faster.

It's also the first time i've known Merckx to be this interested in a young rider (that wasn't his son). It might have something to do with the fact that he (Merckx) is an Anderlecht supporter, and Evenepoel is an ex-Anderlecht youth, but still.

 

[El Pistolero]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

His time to win the Belgian TT Championships was also faster than the fastest time at the Espoirs. Same course of course.

That's pretty impressive if the weather was comparable.

And if it was the same length ofcourse

Yes, he was 8 seconds faster (43 km/h was his average speed over a difficult course of 27.4 KM)

Faster than Froome at age 26.

 

[Red Rick]

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Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

Yeah. I guess the team he goes to next year rides 2.2 races?

He will ride the Tour of California and Tour of Utah next year.

He has a lot of adoration for Contador, a climber with a good TT (that's what he wants to become).

Those seem like great races to be the big calendar points for a great talent of his age.

Yeah junior races aren't giving any new information anymore.

True. It is pretty clearly established that this kid is in a league of his own as a junior right now. Whether he hammers everyone once more or a hundred times more, nothing really changes. The sooner he is up against espoirs with a few years advantage the better.

His time to win the Belgian TT Championships was also faster than the fastest time at the Espoirs. Same course of course.

That's pretty impressive if the weather was comparable.

And if it was the same length ofcourse

Yes, he was 8 seconds faster (43 km/h was his average speed over a difficult course of 27.4 KM)

Faster than Froome at age 26.

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