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

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Holding at a svelte 92 kilos. Discuss!

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Can he fluctuate his weight so much as to be ideal for the races he targets, against the route, and against the competition he faces? There's never much talk about other riders and their weight, only this lad. I can't understand the obsession with his weight all the time.
Almost every GT contender projects a healthy (meaning manageable) weight loss over the course of a stage race. Start too light and you risk fatigue and recovery issues. Start too heavy on early hilly stages and it won't matter what the later plan is; you've lost time.
Belgians love their Remco and much of the speculation follows less successful big climbs.

At lease Patrick is too busy ruining Julian's career to care about Remco's weight.
 
Almost every GT contender projects a healthy (meaning manageable) weight loss over the course of a stage race. Start too light and you risk fatigue and recovery issues. Start too heavy on early hilly stages and it won't matter what the later plan is; you've lost time.
Belgians love their Remco and much of the speculation follows less successful big climbs.

At lease Patrick is too busy ruining Julian's career to care about Remco's weight.
That's not true at all. They used to do this, but not anymore. Weight fluctuations aren't good during a stage race. Dumoulin extensively talked about this during on a dutch podcast.
 
His way for losing weight at Giro wasn't healthy at all))
Dumoulin actually gained a bit of weight during the Giro he won. Regardless of dumps taken by the roadside.

That's not true at all. They used to do this, but not anymore. Weight fluctuations aren't good during a stage race. Dumoulin extensively talked about this during on a dutch podcast.
They used to do this. Question is whether someone informed SQS that that is a big no-no.
 
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That's not true at all. They used to do this, but not anymore. Weight fluctuations aren't good during a stage race. Dumoulin extensively talked about this during on a dutch podcast.
That's not true at all for whom? You'd have to search a bit to provide us with GT contenders or podium winners that ended up heavier than they began.
My point was the manageability of effort vs the tactics of a race and what it takes to stay in the fight. Saying "weight fluctuations aren't good during a stage race." ignores the fact that it can be unavoidable. The effort required to respond to critical work loads dictates every aspect of nutrition for recovery. Weight follows that and can be an indicator of declining ability if that's what you mean.
 
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Not sure if this the job of the diëtist or performance coach though
Coach and rider, then the nutritionist recommends how they can fuel it and it takes all of that to be a contender. A good example is Mateo Jorgenson now on Visma. He needed to pay his own nutritionist while on Movistar to get the quality of information to allow him to train more. His performances last year showed the benefit and I haven't heard that focus on a specific weight as goal for those improvements. I'd guess it was quality and recoverable volume that was most important. Whatever, he improved and got the deal for his immediate future on a dominant team.
 
....and QS is driving out Julian. Maybe they never planned to use him and just want the money in the budget. Hard to say but a motivated JA could hurt them if he was a vindictive sort.
Alaphilippe has a brilliant palmares and comes home to Marion Rousse. Somehow, I don't see going on 6-hour training rides just to get back at QS as a big motivator under those circumstances.
 
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He’s done. Put a fork in him. They all sunset sooner or later. It’s his time
Seems like a premature RIP. Lefevre likes to manipulate his riders to make them race harder but he may have just motivated a serious combatant that will end up on another team. I'd actually enjoy seeing that.
I'm guessing you'd rather Julian just give up? He'd be a great ally for Remco and Evenepoel might be the one guy that could encourage that to happen.
 
He’s done. Put a fork in him. They all sunset sooner or later. It’s his time

Maybe. I'm a big Alaphilippe fan but I have a feeling some of the reasons for his success ahead of 2022 can't be discussed on this side of the forum.

Soudal dismissed his cousin Franck who was his coach, at the end of last year, too.

Taking a wider view, it's really hard to live/train like a top level pro. I've trained for a number of events like the Etape du Tour as well as amateur races when I was younger, and it's tough to stay committed with a family/job etc. Yeah, it's his main job but if you've just got a single partner and no children it's easier. When there are children and the partner has their own career, it's like a three ring circus at times...

I did think that JA would be a strong ally/decoy/foil/second option for Remco for years to come, but now I think he'll almost certainly be leaving Soudal after this year. It was an inauspicious start in Omloop to what we meet see from him this season...