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

[Juan Pelota]

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He will get a free role in Turkey. Doesn't have to work for Hodeg or Jakobsen. He can go for GC if he wants, without pressure (from the team). https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20190412_04317722

Burning fat in Spain
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv_FF4Sh9ZB/

What's TR and CH?

 

[Vroome.exe]

Re: Re:

He will get a free role in Turkey. Doesn't have to work for Hodeg or Jakobsen. He can go for GC if he wants, without pressure (from the team). https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20190412_04317722

Burning fat in Spain
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv_FF4Sh9ZB/

What's TR and CH?

Turkey and Switzerland.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

interview

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wielerflits.nl%2Fnieuws%2Fremco-evenepoel-over-zijn-programma-zijn-doelen-en-zijn-gewicht%2F

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/remco-evenepoel-over-zijn-programma-zijn-doelen-en-zijn-gewicht/

 

[armchairclimber]

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interview

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wielerflits.nl%2Fnieuws%2Fremco-evenepoel-over-zijn-programma-zijn-doelen-en-zijn-gewicht%2F

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/remco-evenepoel-over-zijn-programma-zijn-doelen-en-zijn-gewicht/

Good read that, thanks.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

No L'Avenir

 

[yaco]

Think Evanopoel can get a top 5 in this race - A.Yates won this race as a first year pro in a race which was probably a touch weaker in 2014.

 

[tobydawq]

Long sleeves AND long legs in Turkey!?!

He definitely needs to toughen up!

 

[Forever The Best]

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Long sleeves AND long legs in Turkey!?!

He definitely needs to toughen up!

Unlike last years, Istanbul is still very cold at the moment. I'm going to the school with coat and wearing pullover at school while last year I was wearing t-shirt at school at the same time of year.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Remco is the new Kelderman

 

[BalearicBeats]

That corner was quite bad but he completely misjudged it as well

 

[Mayomaniac]

Remco is the new Kelderman

Lol, i was just going to post exactly the same

 

[Salvarani]

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Long sleeves AND long legs in Turkey!?!

He definitely needs to toughen up!

Unlike last years, Istanbul is still very cold at the moment. I'm going to the school with coat and wearing pullover at school while last year I was wearing t-shirt at school at the same time of year.

I dont think he was riding with long sleeves and long legs because he was cold those days... I think it might have been to protect his skin him from the sun. He might be sensitive to that? I have no idea, but just a thought.

He riding without any long legs today also in the rain...

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Hoped he'd win it, if not GC, at least the stage, but i think it was a lack of experience that did him in. Still a decent result, and had there been an ITT, he might very well have taken the overall. Anyway, expected a top 5, and he finished 4th. Next up is Romandie

 

[wheresmybrakes]

So is he gonna be the next TD who needs a ITT to be in contention for overall? Give the boy chance, he's still a pup and learning.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

So is he gonna be the next TD who needs a ITT to be in contention for overall? Give the boy chance, he's still a pup and learning.

As i said in the ToT thread, i'm happy he's racing the way he is. I'd rather see him try, while crashing & burning, than see him play it safe, in order to get a better result but without knowing where his limits lie. The winner of the ToT was very likely going to be the same person that won the MTF. The thing is, the entire week (as GC goes) is reduced to the result of this one climb.

 

[Panda Claws]

Apart from Evenepoel, who has been the last cyclist to skip U23 races all together?

 

[Mayomaniac]

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Apart from Evenepoel, who has been the last cyclist to skip U23 races all together?

Not exactly the same thing, but when it comes to Italians I only remember Saronni and Cesare Cipollini, Marios older brother, who were allowed to turn pro before turning 21 because they totally dominated their opponents.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Nice interview.

 

[Anderis]

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Apart from Evenepoel, who has been the last cyclist to skip U23 races all together?

I know that's probably not the answer you have been looking for but technically, riders like Roglic and Woods did skip u-23 races. :razz:

 

[del1962]

Very impressive today

 

[krakenKE]

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Apart from Evenepoel, who has been the last cyclist to skip U23 races all together?

I don't know if he was the last but Peter Sagan never raced at U23 level.

 

[Koronin]

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Apart from Evenepoel, who has been the last cyclist to skip U23 races all together?

I don't know if he was the last but Peter Sagan never raced at U23 level.

When was the U-23 level established? You'd have to go from that point on for that. There are likely many who raced adult amateur that didn't race U-23 before turning pro.

 

[Forever The Best]

Re: Re:

Long sleeves AND long legs in Turkey!?!

He definitely needs to toughen up!

Unlike last years, Istanbul is still very cold at the moment. I'm going to the school with coat and wearing pullover at school while last year I was wearing t-shirt at school at the same time of year.

I dont think he was riding with long sleeves and long legs because he was cold those days... I think it might have been to protect his skin him from the sun. He might be sensitive to that? I have no idea, but just a thought.

He riding without any long legs today also in the rain...

Istanbul has been simply very cold the last few days. Today was 9(!) degrees in İstanbul which is extremely abnormal for this time of the year. Normally it would be around 20-25 degrees at this time of the year.
But the reason why Evenepoel wore long legs, I don't know it if he didn't wear them today.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Evenepoel reacts on DQS Twitter with a video:

https://twitter.com/deceuninck_qst/status/1119632992945823751

And on Instagram with a message:

4th today in the queen stage of Tour of Turkey.
Gave it a try abd attacked (maybe a little bit too far from the finish line), but I can only be proud if this result.
4th in GC as well.
Thanks to my teammates for helping me, the whole day.
Very cold and wet day, thanks wolfpack!
Congrats @felixgro93

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Probably the ride that convinces me that his absolute floor is “good enough to win a number of mid tier one week stage races”. He might be better than that. He might even be a lot better than that. But he won’t be worse than that barring injury or similar.

Previously I’d have said that his floor was “competent domestique”.