Scenario 1:
Remco and Rog are attacking each other constantly during last years Vuelta on some fictional mountain stage. Just before the final MTF Remco looks at the camera, smiles and pretends to rev an engine.
He then gets dropped thoroughly by Rog on the climb and loses the Vuelta.
Scenario 2:
On a climb in Catalunya, Rog attacks. Remco follows and while sitting on Rog’s wheel, turns to the camera and smiles to show how easy he is following Rog. He then drops Rog.
What would be the reaction?
I criticized Remco’s shoulder brush off when he was only barely out of his teens. But even that arrogant (though misinterpreted) gesture pales in comparison to some of the things Pog has done. And yet the reaction it diametrically opposite.
Think deep down some know how good Remco is, and they hate him for it. Will find anyone who has even the slightest chance of dethroning him