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

[Berniece]

I agree the UCI have ridiculous rules. But Remco...

He was asked to give his opinion. How do you think someone like Wiggins would respond to such a thing? They are training and working towards a goal, and suddenly due to arbitrary ruling they just change it.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

The amount of riders you see dropping back through the peloton on the approach for sprints, and other riders just riding around them. You don't hear of any complaints that the dropping riders should veer way out of their way so they can have a clear run to the line. That would be a bit dangerous.

 

[Venge 82]

The incident with Tim Declercq is closed. The reason they lost 40 s in the TTT in the last part, was due to the weather (maybe in combination with a furious start). Remco is Remco... He should manage his emotions after bad results in a better way. Can't believe Tim to do such a thing on purpose. Just unfortunate...

Regarding the helmets, I totally agree with Remco. It's *** to change the rules after hard work and research by riders, teams, manufacturers,.. The sock makes sure the helmet is kept in the right position. So what?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

New UCI rule came out: if Roglic is ever seen attacking or taking a turn up front, he will be fined and possibly relegated.

UCI is grateful to Primoz for protecting other cyclists backs from unexpected attacks.

 

[Venge 82]

It's *** to change

Apparently forbidden to write BS on this forum. OMG, this woke society...

 

[Berflamand]

I see there's still some confusion about the incident with Declercq.

Declercq has explained it already himself though.

He said that at a certain point he was told that the Quick-Step riders were 500 metres behind him. Before the corners that followed he looked behind but couldn't see them yet. Then he got into the corners and since they were riding 20-30km/h faster than him, suddenly they were behind him in the corners but there was nowhere he could go at that point. He also said that the motard in front of him should have signalled it that they were right behind him.

So he did actually hinder the Quick-Step guys a bit but he definitely didn't do it intentionally. He said it were unfortunate circumstances but he also feels a bit bad about it.

The thing he couldn't accept was that Remco (in his first reaction) seemed to insinuate that Declercq might have done it on purpose. Remco has however since apologized personally for those words and for both of them the case is closed and there are no more hard feelings.

 

[Sybrand]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcQbBJhJCQ


More whining, now about the tactics of UAE, not chasing hard enough.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Perhaps they put some kind of truth serum in his bidons.

 

[DNP-Old]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcQbBJhJCQ


More whining, now about the tactics of UAE, not chasing hard enough.

Journalist: ‘Hello rider, what is your take away from the stage you just finished?’
Rider: *answers question, shares thoughts*

How dare he? 😡

 

[Netserk]

Journalist: ‘Hello rider, what is your take away from the stage you just finished?’
Rider: *answers question, shares thoughts*

How dare he? 😡

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Content of thoughts publicly announced can be evaluated, even disapproved, by the audience. No one questions his right to answer the question, they question his answer to the question.

 

[DNP-Old]

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Content of thoughts publicly announced can be evaluated, even disapproved, by the audience. No one questions his right to answer the question, they question his answer to the question.

Your retort is equivalent to a MAGA-hat cheering for 45th to "just tell it as it is".

Answering question =/= whining, but you knew that already.

 

[Netserk]

Answering question =/= whining, but you knew that already.

No one claimed that, but you knew that already. It's possible to answer a question by whining. It's also possible to whine without answering a question. The two are distinct, even if they can overlap.

 

[DNP-Old]

No one claimed that, but you knew that already. It's possible to answer a question by whining.

Ok, Netserk.

 

[Netserk]

Ok, Netserk.

So who got mad at the fact that he answered the question, not at his answer to the question?

 

[Berniece]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcQbBJhJCQ


More whining, now about the tactics of UAE, not chasing hard enough.

How is it whining? He's just saying their tactics were ***, which we saw in the result btw.

 

[Venge 82]

How is it whining? He's just saying their tactics were ***, which we saw in the result btw.

+1

 

[Wvv]

Remco has however since apologized personally for those words and for both of them the case is closed and there are no more hard feelings.

 

[veganrob]

He was asked to give his opinion. How do you think someone like Wiggins would respond to such a thing? They are training and working towards a goal, and suddenly due to arbitrary ruling they just change it.

Wiggins is a complete douche.

 

[joseph89]

“You never should take away the character of a person. It’s how I am and I often say what I feel in my stomach or my heart, It’s the way I react after a race often, but I also know it’s not 100% what I mean. I don’t regret what I said, it’s just the way I said it." - Remco

 

[Salvarani]

“You never should take away the character of a person. It’s how I am and I often say what I feel in my stomach or my heart, It’s the way I react after a race often, but I also know it’s not 100% what I mean. I don’t regret what I said, it’s just the way I said it." - Remco

I might be wrong, but I am always right!

 

[jmdirt]

Apparently forbidden to write BS on this forum. OMG, this woke society...

Well that's b*llsh*t!

I can't tell if that was tongue-in-cheek or serious so don't forget that woke is a good thing. Don't let the professional twisters, twist you.

 

[jmdirt]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcQbBJhJCQ


More whining, now about the tactics of UAE, not chasing hard enough.

That is definately not whining. Actually, that's a very reflective interview from RE.

 

[Venge 82]

Evening lecture...

 

[Netserk]

Evening lecture...

Remco-splaining will reach a whole other level. Just earlier today in Danish cycling twitter, I saw some Belgian rando lecturing on the proper interpretation of Evenepoel (I guess he had no problem interpreting Danish):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765749411240407485

View: https://twitter.com/Puncheur_music/status/1765749411240407485

 

[Berniece]

Remco-splaining will reach a whole other level. Just earlier today in Danish cycling twitter, I saw some Belgian rando lecturing on the proper interpretation of Evenepoel (I guess he had no problem interpreting Danish):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765749411240407485

View: https://twitter.com/Puncheur_music/status/1765749411240407485

I threw it in Google Translate, it was very poorly translated, but if he means that Evenepoel wanted to say that Skjelmose only got past him because he didn’t see him, that’s bs.