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

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Riek s said:
tried so see remco before roglic attacked, and he isn't even in the top20 by then.

The first shot he is seen is when roglic is at the front and he is barely on screen, seems to be at the back of that group. So i think he needed to close the gap between the two groups that was their before...

remarkable he still made it 8th.. he came from behind yates and co
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He did a good job navigating the mess of blown riders in front of him, for sure. Looking at the finish he should have conceded some time to Primoz but the officials lumped everyone together back to Kuss.
 
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DQS not helping Remco today I think. They tried to bet on Alaphilippe for the stage win (which was in my eyes always impossible given his recent COVID-issues just after his comeback). Van Wilder coming to the front without Evenepoel in his wheel was also a weird thing to see. If they can bring him to the front in the last 500 metres, he's certainly top-5. Nevertheless not really any harm done, but they need to tune down Alaphilippe's ambitions or Remco will be isolated too soon. Also, the best rider in the peloton Masnada was nowhere to be seen.
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As you say, no harm done, but Remco was badly positioned inside the last 1k. He should have been with Van Wilder. The question is why was he not? Even if the idea was to set up Alaphilippe, Evenepoel should have been taken as close to Rogilc as possible, regardless if the idea was to set up Ala for the win (which obviously failed).
 
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Remco took advice from Adam Yates on how to cool down

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I guess I am not as positive as some here about today’s performance. I am hoping it was a choice. But it was eerily similar to that giro dirt hill finish where he came from way back to finish fourth behind Bernal.

If he is in CSS shape still, tomorrow seems a perfect test.
 
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Big Doopie said:
I guess I am not as positive as some here about today’s performance. I am hoping it was a choice. But it was eerily similar to that giro dirt hill finish where he came from way back to finish fourth behind Bernal.

If he is in CSS shape still, tomorrow seems a perfect test.
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It's a fresh 2 minute W/kg effort, Evenepoel has never contested these against the best in the world.

Campo Felice is way different, and frankly getting 4th there wasn't even bad.
 
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Big Doopie said:
I guess I am not as positive as some here about today’s performance. I am hoping it was a choice. But it was eerily similar to that giro dirt hill finish where he came from way back to finish fourth behind Bernal.

If he is in CSS shape still, tomorrow seems a perfect test.
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Don't see it as a major problem, he really was badly placed, and it was hard to move up in the beginning. If you see how roglic moves up.. that is not something remco will risk.

So him being back is different reason than in that Giro and even in that Giro, at that point is wasn't a problem of performance either.


edit: first time i could decently see him in one shot with Roglic.

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Andre said:
Bow-Wow...then I must say Remco has really sharpened his bike handling skills...that was a great descent. Good job coming in 8th, hopefully he starts getting some time back soon.
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Indeed, many notable riders shedded time where he didn't. Yates, Carapaz, Almeida, Rodriguez, MAL, Landa, Mintjes, Carthy, Wright, and a bunch of others. He's in good position for now.
 
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Logic-is-your-friend said:
Van Wilder.

Ilan has a sharper chin, straighter shoulders and usually is leaning over his handlebars like a cat ready to jump on its prey while climbing.
He has bib 137. Remco has 134.

Sometimes they have different colored shades as well, but i haven't checked that yet.
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So, i checked their sunglasses, and you can easily tell them apart by looking at their shades. Ilan's currently have a thick white frame, making it look a bit like 1980's ski goggles. While Remco has either a pair of sunglasses without a frame, or a slim/dark frame.

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Logic-is-your-friend said:
So, i checked their sunglasses, and you can easily tell them apart by looking at their shades. Ilan's currently have a thick white frame, making it look a bit like 1980's ski goggles. While Remco has either a pair of sunglasses without a frame, or a slim/dark frame.

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So if at one point in the race they switch glasses, Remco might get away @ km 0 and only at the end of the stage the competitors will be informed it was Remco in the attack and not Van Wilder... smart!!
 
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Riek s said:
So if at one point in the race they switch glasses, Remco might get away @ km 0 and only at the end of the stage the competitors will be informed it was Remco in the attack and not Van Wilder... smart!!
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It´s almost crazy how alike they look. I remember the TT in TdS when van Wilder crashed. I was watching without sound and was convinced that it was Remco that had gone down, even to the point that when he was in the lead at the intermediate time check I thought he had recovered from the crash and would have had an even bigger lead if it hadn´t happened :D
 
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Red Rick said:
No moves today.

Thought he might try on the final ascent but the one before hadn't been fast.
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Clearly going conservative to see how long he can last on GC if he saves as much energy as possible. Either that or he is confident he can match best climbers…

Perhaps the thinking is stay as close as possible. Then go for the stage win in the ITT. If that puts him in a podium position then I guess he keeps fighting for GC the rest of the way, or until he has a bad day and loses huge time.

And, frankly, it boggles my mind that some want to see him fail in the mountains. He is the only real alternative to Rog. No one else comes close to having the all round abilities of Rog. In fact everyone else should be at minimum 2-3 mins off of Rog after the ITT. No way they are coming back from that. If you want a competition you have to hope that Remco can climb with the best and recover. You only need two top riders to make an exciting race as the TDF showed.
 
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