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

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Serry, Evenepoel, Van Wilder, Vansevenant, Alaphilippe, Devenyns, Cerny and Il Magnifico are in Livigno.

Would be a pretty cool team for the Vuelta but I suppose they'll have to fit in Cavendish and a small sprinttrain aswell.
 
Don't know if they're gonna be taking Vansevenant to his second GT in the same year already, especially since he didn't exactly set the world ablaze in the Giro. Not sure they're gonna be taking Cavendish either. That seems like overkill, considering they already want to go for GC with Evenepoel and i assume stages with Alaphilippe. To go for sprints with Cav as well seems a bit much. It would also make little sense considering next year's sponsors have come out and flat out said they want to start building a GC team.

I'd take Evenepoel, Alaphilippe, Van Wilder, Masnada, Devenyns, Vervaeke, Cerny & Cavagna.

Serry first reserve.

That seems like a well balanced team that can help both Evenepoel and Alaphilippe, and it makes sense considering none of them have done a GT so far this year.
 
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sorry....who is Il Magnifico ? Also I had hoped they would reinforce Remco more instead of trying to add Cavendish.
 

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Don't know if they're gonna be taking Vansevenant to his second GT in the same year already, especially since he didn't exactly set the world ablaze in the Giro. Not sure they're gonna be taking Cavendish either. That seems like overkill, considering they already want to go for GC with Evenepoel and i assume stages with Alaphilippe. To go for sprints with Cav as well seems a bit much. It would also make little sense considering next year's sponsors have come out and flat out said they want to start building a GC team.

I'd take Evenepoel, Alaphilippe, Van Wilder, Masnada, Devenyns, Vervaeke, Cerny & Cavagna.

Serry first reserve.

That seems like a well balanced team that can help both Evenepoel and Alaphilippe, and it makes sense considering none of them have done a GT so far this year.

i would like lampaert and cattaneo in there just for the TTT.
 
i would like lampaert and cattaneo in there just for the TTT.
I don't think that's necessary. These are actually 8 very good TT'ers. Even Masnada, Devenyns and Vervaeke, who are probably the weakest links, are capable of a decent TT. You would be swapping out much needed mountain support. Alaphilippe, Evenepoel, Cavagna have all won WT TT's. Van Wilder and Cerny have top 5's and with a better bike, Van Wilder could have won the 2021 Dauphiné and Romandie TT's.

sorry....who is Il Magnifico ? Also I had hoped they would reinforce Remco more instead of trying to add Cavendish.
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sure.

however, watching today i actually fear remco would have been as relevant today as pidcock had he been riding.

nah. He'd be better than Pidcock.

Pog rode like a bad Remco today. Remco on a good day takes time out of Pog today.

Let's not forget, he did beat Jonas at Pais Vasco
 
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I'd take Evenepoel, Alaphilippe, Van Wilder, Masnada, Devenyns, Vervaeke, Cerny & Cavagna.

Serry first reserve.

That seems like a well balanced team that can help both Evenepoel and Alaphilippe, and it makes sense considering none of them have done a GT so far this year.

What about Big Tim? I guess Cerny and Cavagna could share that work.
 
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This thread will be hype come August if this is anything to go by.

Remco v Rog v Pog sounds amazing. Who else do we have? Mas always performs well, Carapaz should line up, Hindley, Landa, and how about Bernal? Could be a memorable edition.
I don't think Bernal will be anywhere near on form and condition.
 
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nah. He'd be better than Pidcock.

Pog rode like a bad Remco today. Remco on a good day takes time out of Pog today.

Let's not forget, he did beat Jonas at Pais Vasco

u see how skinny pog and vingo are -- their chests?

i hope remco rethinks his GT weight, otherwise...
 
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To put Remco in perspective, when Contador was his age, he was being dropped by 10 minutes in the mountains. Remco is being dropped by 1-2 minutes
When Contador was his age, he had just come back from a greater setback than Remco's (with a longer break from racing too), yet in the first months of his comeback he won Setmana Catalana, was 3rd in Itzulia and 4th in Romandie.
 
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This thread will be hype come August if this is anything to go by.

Remco v Rog v Pog sounds amazing. Who else do we have? Mas always performs well, Carapaz should line up, Hindley, Landa, and how about Bernal? Could be a memorable edition.
Just add a Healthy Superman Lopez to those and it would be a spectacular Vuelta
 
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PATRICK LEFEVERE IS THINKING OF REMCO EVENEPOEL'S TOUR DEBUT IN 2024

If it is up to Patrick Lefevere, we will only see Remco Evenepoel make his debut in the Tour de France in 2024. The team boss of Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl made this known in conversation with La Dernière Heure . "I would like to see him again in the Giro before he discovers the Tour in 2024," said Lefevere.


“But hey, maybe I'll change my mind. Only fools don't change their minds," Lefevere added. However, the eccentric manager is convinced that Evenepoel is made for big tours. “I don't want to make comparisons, but riders like Chris Froome needed five or six big laps to start winning. I am a patient person and Remco is only 22.”
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And so Lefevere is careful. He also points to the 2021 Giro d'Italia, in which Evenepoel made his debut in a grand tour. “Last year we made the mistake of sending Remco to the Giro. That was premature. I don't want to make a mistake like that again. That's why we decided not to send him to the Tour this year," he says. Evenepoel will start in the Vuelta a España . "The goal will be to see what he can do in the general classification."
“Otherwise it makes no sense to talk about Remco as a rider for the big tours. You can't learn without trying,” explains Lefevere. “It is true that the Spanish climbs are not a gift for him, but he may shine in other stages. There are also time trials.”
 
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