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

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He's more likely to win by the same margin tomorrow than to lose the overall.
I actually can see that happening. If other teams make thw race hard before the first Malhao climb, and his explosivity has really improved. As someone else stated: tomorrow will be the real lithmus test. Not really to assess his climbing skills, but to see if his "big thighs" are of any use in the Ardennes.
 
Damn, just look at that thick thighed aero devil.

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Eyes at hip level. Dream time trialist.
 
He's more likely to win by the same margin tomorrow than to lose the overall.
That's what I thought in Valenciana as well (I even put money on him winning and lost) and we all saw what happened in the end. Of course the Malhao climb is not comparable to the one in Valenciana, it's way shorter. So I also expect Remco to easily hold the top spot and win the GC.
 
Someone got his watts on Strava : 392W for 38 minutes, to compare with Worlds ITT 2021 384W for 48 minutes. Quite impressive when you see today's route with lots of downhills. Should be somewhere around 6.3W/kg.
 
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How professional do you think Spilak was?

Very unprofessional. People often spoke about how he spent most of his time water skiing on the Garda lake in his non-contract seasons, very uninterested in his cycling when it wasn't important in order to secure a salary.

Of course, you're probably going to argue now that earning money is what defines being professional so that there was nothing wrong with that...
 
Very unprofessional. People often spoke about how he spent most of his time water skiing on the Garda lake in his non-contract seasons, very uninterested in his cycling when it wasn't important in order to secure a salary.

Of course, you're probably going to argue now that earning money is what defines being professional so that there was nothing wrong with that...
I've never read that and thus didn't know that about Spilak, hence my question. Thank you for the answer.

Evenepoel certainly seems very ambitious and driven.

The distributions of their strengths seem quite different to me, so I don't think the comparison is very meaningful, nor do I think it's true that Evenepoel is quite a lot better (as a blanket statement).
 
I've never read that and thus didn't know that about Spilak, hence my question. Thank you for the answer.

Evenepoel certainly seems very ambitious and driven.

The distributions of their strengths seem quite different to me, so I don't think the comparison is very meaningful, nor do I think it's true that Evenepoel is quite a lot better (as a blanket statement).

Spilak could do one thing; one-week races.

I think it's quite evident that Evenepoel has an infinitely higher ceiling than Spilak. He can become a much better one-week racer than him, he can in all likelihood win monuments and compete for Grand Tour victories and is an elite time trialist too.

I see it as nothing but mockery to call him a Belgian Spilak but understand why some people can resent him.