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Yes, there are twitter/instagram video's in this thread from during his recovery training end of 2020. I wonder what his weight is right now, because he wanted to lose one extra kg between Liège and Vuelta... but maybe he's already lost more than that? According to an interview he was 66.5kg during Valencia, and 64kg during Liège, aiming for 63kg to start la Vuelta, which would roughly be 3kg more than when he started the Giro.
Based on what was that ''clearly too low''? I can't remember many modern day GC riders of his size weighing much more than that. I think his Giro failure had more to do with the way his comeback was handled than his weight. It might be too low for top-end TT efforts though that should not be a focus in a climbing-heavy/TT-starving GT era, but certainly not in the sense of it being unhealthy for a GC rider.
Yes he did, unless you're accusing Brian Holm of lying or you have Remco micced up 24/7. You do know a lot, and pride yourself on it as well, but you cannot know what is being said in random, 1-1 daily-stuff conversations.
I am happy to report i do not have him micced up 24/7. Your entire post seemed satirical and since i did not see any interview or a transcription of one pass by where he said that, but it somehow resembled some things he said in an interview of two days ago i assumed you were playing around or at the very least paraphrasing.
Some people here persistently refuse to see Remco's GT potential... Once Remco will start competing in the TdF, Pogacar's TdF reign will end.
I fail to see why this race will define his GT future? He is in a build-up phase towards his goals later this season after a tiring training camp in Spain (1842 km and 31200 m of climbing during 2 weeks) including spending his nights in a low-pressure room. On top of that it's cold and wet, not his favourite environment to say the least and neither a representation of the conditions in an average GT. So I actually wouldn't be surprised if he suffers because of his training efforts and/or the weather and finds himself struggling but it wont' define his GT future at all.
Cold and wet is quite often the conditions in the Alps and Dolomites for the toughest multi mountain stages in the Giro.
How is it unrealistic to finally expect a good high mountain performance if hes trained that much then
It's not unrealistic, but he has already had a long spring. If he also aims for results in Suisse, it doesn't allow much down time before the Vuelta.
He had 3 weeks of no racing. He's hardly overracing for the Vuelta. And what quality climbing threats peak for Norway?
Ah, you missed the memo. Everything Evenepoel does defines his entire future.
Disappointed in Johannessen and in my own prediction. Very nice performance by ReV, Jay Vine and the youngsters Plapp, Brenner and Uijtdebroeks. ReV needs to learn to ride in a straight line uphill.
You think he can win Pologne?
Rest assured I don't follow anyone's posts enough to know why you seem triggered by my comments, but do heckle on!
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