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Clearly a freakishly precocious talent. Quite unfair for the rest of the world that he is Belgian as they already enjoy plenty of road racing glory! I have to wonder what odds you might be able to get on him emulating the achievements of Matej Mohoric in winning the juniors and under 23 worlds back to back. Never had chance to see him race but looking forward to the junior world road race to see what he has got.
 
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Seen him riding a couple of times now and he is a decent talent. But people like to forget that cycling is much more than just riding really fast on a bike, since you need some skills as well. Remco doesn't seem to be very 'gifted', rather unexperienced in that department. His bike handling in the peloton is quite dangerous and he should join a team that can mentally support him during his first years in the peloton. Because he's going to crash... a lot, I can tell you. Way to early to see where his limits are. I just expect it's going to be very hard for him
 
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Seen him riding a couple of times now and he is a decent talent. But people like to forget that cycling is much more than just riding really fast on a bike, since you need some skills as well. Remco doesn't seem to be very 'gifted', rather unexperienced in that department. His bike handling in the peloton is quite dangerous and he should join a team that can mentally support him during his first years in the peloton. Because he's going to crash... a lot, I can tell you. Way to early to see where his limits are. I just expect it's going to be very hard for him
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I agree on the bike handeling. Posted about that on the previous page. But calling him a "decent talent" seems disingenious. He's literally obliterating the competition, winning about 85% of races he enters. By minutes.
 
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European Championships from Thursday to Sunday. Evenepoel will be riding on Friday between 09:00 and 12:00 for the time trial, and on Sunday between 09:00 and 12:00 for the road race. Profile time trial. Profile road race. His biggest rival in the time trial will probably be the Norwegian Wærenskjold, who already managed to beat him once in Morbihan. Though should be noted that Remco already had an advantage of more than four minutes at that time.
 
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European Championships from Thursday to Sunday. Evenepoel will be riding on Friday between 09:00 and 12:00 for the time trial, and on Sunday between 09:00 and 12:00 for the road race. Profile time trial. Profile road race. His biggest rival in the time trial will probably be the Norwegian Wærenskjold, who already managed to beat him once in Morbihan. Though should be noted that Remco already had an advantage of more than four minutes at that time.
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I'm not 100% sure, but it' s possible i saw him training today not far from Mechelen, along the canal. It was a young guy, he looked like Remco, but difficult to tell, rather short as well... he came from the opposite direction so i did get a quick look at his face, but he was beasting against the wind (a section i did half an hour earlier and couldn't go harder than 29 because of the headwind lol), i guess this guy was going well over 40-45 km/h. It was about 40km from where he lives.
 
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European Championships from Thursday to Sunday. Evenepoel will be riding on Friday between 09:00 and 12:00 for the time trial, and on Sunday between 09:00 and 12:00 for the road race. Profile time trial. Profile road race. His biggest rival in the time trial will probably be the Norwegian Wærenskjold, who already managed to beat him once in Morbihan. Though should be noted that Remco already had an advantage of more than four minutes at that time.
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I'm not 100% sure, but it' s possible i saw him training today not far from Mechelen, along the canal. It was a young guy, he looked like Remco, but difficult to tell, rather short as well... he came from the opposite direction so i did get a quick look at his face, but he was beasting against the wind (a section i did half an hour earlier and couldn't go harder than 29 because of the headwind lol), i guess this guy was going well over 40-45 km/h. It was about 40km from where he lives.
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Busy times he has. He'll be a guest in Vive le Velo next Wednesday. :D
 
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This has nothing to do with Evenepoel, but, two questions:

1: Why are the junior and U23 European championships not being held in the same place and time as the elites?

2: Why the double-*** is it being held parallel with the TdF so there's no TV coverage on mainstream media?
 
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