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

[spalco]

Unbelievable, holy ***. I just watched a replay of San Sebastian, couldn't catch it yesterday, wow.

Nobody can say he's just a rouleur without punch or climbing legs now... What a way to get his first WT win!

 

[Bakkie]

He is riding the Euros ITT in Alkmaar. Can he win?

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

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He is riding the Euros ITT in Alkmaar. Can he win?

Ganna, Asgreen, Lampaert and Van Emden are better ITTers, when on form. Right?

(I'm not sure anymore after Remco's most recent exploits :lol: )

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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He is riding the Euros ITT in Alkmaar. Can he win?

Ganna, Asgreen, Lampaert and Van Emden are better ITTers, when on form. Right?

(I'm not sure anymore after Remco's most recent exploits :lol: )

I think on a flat course, yes. On hilly courses, no.

 

[houtdffan]

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Which perfectly explains why currently he's doing way better on flats and hilly terrain than in the few high mountain races he's done.

Seriously they keep talking about how Evenepoel still doesn't eat like a professional and **** and it's weird he doesn't do as well in the high mountains as on flatter terrain?

Obviously this is not an unfixable issue.

Sounds like we may have the next Jan Ullrich on our hands then

 

[Red Rick]

Okay I'm gonna ask

Do the Belgians have any better option for the Olympic road race?

 

[Bakkie]

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He is riding the Euros ITT in Alkmaar. Can he win?

Ganna, Asgreen, Lampaert and Van Emden are better ITTers, when on form. Right?

(I'm not sure anymore after Remco's most recent exploits :lol: )

At the Belgian Championships ITT Remco was 3th, 7 seconds after Lampaert. In a good day he is almost on the same level.

 

[hayneplane]

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He is riding the Euros ITT in Alkmaar. Can he win?

Ganna, Asgreen, Lampaert and Van Emden are better ITTers, when on form. Right?

(I'm not sure anymore after Remco's most recent exploits :lol: )

With the rapid rate of progress even taking reference points from races 3 months ago feels out of date and almost irrelevant.

What will matter most is getting the pacing right and not burning too many matches in the first section.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Okay I'm gonna ask

Do the Belgians have any better option for the Olympic road race?

Still a long way off, so who knows how the young guns will evolve, and how the old farts will decay.
But i wouldn't rule out Lambrecht. If they go to the finishline with a small group, he can win a sprint (unlike Evenepoel). He's shown he can handle the distance. On the other hand, if Evenepoel keeps progressing like he has, then chances are he'll attack halfway and win with 16 minutes.

Seriously, who knows. Nobody expected Van Avermaet either.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

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Hasn't changed much (other than the hair, lol)

how old was he??

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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how old was he??

Picture is from 2012 :lol:

https://www.psv.nl/jeugd/spelers/speler/remco-evenepoel.htm

 

[red_flanders]

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Which perfectly explains why currently he's doing way better on flats and hilly terrain than in the few high mountain races he's done.

Seriously they keep talking about how Evenepoel still doesn't eat like a professional and **** and it's weird he doesn't do as well in the high mountains as on flatter terrain?

Obviously this is not an unfixable issue.

Sounds like we may have the next Jan Ullrich on our hands then

Are we really criticizing him already? Wow.

 

[Wvv]

Some more pictures.

Playing for a Belgium national youth team in 2015.

Being captain at Anderlecht's youth team at the age of 16.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Interesting tidbit. His father is convinced he will never lose his head. Remco had to help out on long days (5 in the morning till 18 in the evening) throughout his youth, as a plasterer and knows what hard work is.

Something else i had not heard reported before, was that he was dropped on the penultimate climb of Clasica San Sebastian, due to a mechanical defect.

Are we really criticizing him already? Wow.

Actually i brought up his diet and weight in the past in this topic. Not to criticize him, but to show there still is plenty of room for improvement. The most important thing is that he knows, and is consciously not pushing his body to the limit with diets and weight loss, untill he feels he's physically full grown.

PS: he seems to have shed some weight over the summer though. He seems skinnier in that video.

 

[yaco]

Strange that Evanepoel never mentioned having a mechanical in his post race interview. He mentioned 'feeling bad' during the race.

 

[Valanga]

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He is riding the Euros ITT in Alkmaar. Can he win?

When Fitte Peeters (his DS) said they were aiming for top 5, he had an interesting smile on his face imho. Looked to me that he actually wanted to say they were going for victory ;-)

 

[F_Cance]

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Strange that Evanepoel never mentioned having a mechanical in his post race interview. He mentioned 'feeling bad' during the race.

And he was dropped two times, not only the one mentioned with the alleged mechanical. Both times it looked like he just got dropped.

 

[Bolder]

It's possible he had a shifting issue. Amador was driving the peloton at about 50 kmh so a missed shift could explain the split. Regardless he hammered back about 20 seconds, caught his breath then rode off the front. He's got a fabulous motor and his compact build is probably worth a fair number of watts. He doesn't take up a lot of airspace; you can't get a good draft off of him.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

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He is riding the Euros ITT in Alkmaar. Can he win?

Ganna, Asgreen, Lampaert and Van Emden are better ITTers, when on form. Right?

(I'm not sure anymore after Remco's most recent exploits :lol: )

At the Belgian Championships ITT Remco was 3th, 7 seconds after Lampaert. In a good day he is almost on the same level.

Lampaert wasn't recovered from Switzerland, according to the man himself (where he performed significantly better in the ITT, IMO)

He was definitely a better flat ITTer than Evenepoel back then. But maybe not anymore...

 

[Bonimenier]

San Sebastian was een koers die je per se op je erelijst wou hebben. Wat zijn de anderen?

“Luik-Bastenaken-Luik, Ronde van Lombardije, Giro, Tour, Vuelta, het WK en de Olympische Spelen. Als ik die allemaal binnen heb, stop ik met koersen.”

Translation:

San Sebastian was a race that you necessarily wanted to have on your honors list. What are the others?

“Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Tour of Lombardy, Giro, Tour, Vuelta, the World Cup and the Olympic Games. When I have all of those, I will stop racing. "



We only got 2 more years of Remco.

 

[Gigs_98]

I honestly wonder what he could do at cobbles classics. His engine should in theory be perfect for PR

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

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Strange that Evanepoel never mentioned having a mechanical in his post race interview. He mentioned 'feeling bad' during the race.

And he was dropped two times, not only the one mentioned with the alleged mechanical. Both times it looked like he just got dropped.

How can you tell? Movistar was driving the peloton at an insane pace. Say he had a shifting issue (which seems the most likely because he didn't have a flat) and you lose 40 positions... and all of a sudden you are dangling at the back and need to find your way to the front on your own. It 's quite possible the efforts of the first time coming back, were the cause of him getting dropped a second time.

Anyway, it's just something i read on a Belgian newspaper's website. It's possible that it's not true, i don't even know what would be more impressive. Him coming back from the dead, or him not dying in the first place but being held back by a mechanical.

 

[spalco]

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San Sebastian was een koers die je per se op je erelijst wou hebben. Wat zijn de anderen?

“Luik-Bastenaken-Luik, Ronde van Lombardije, Giro, Tour, Vuelta, het WK en de Olympische Spelen. Als ik die allemaal binnen heb, stop ik met koersen.”

Translation:

San Sebastian was a race that you necessarily wanted to have on your honors list. What are the others?

“Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Tour of Lombardy, Giro, Tour, Vuelta, the World Cup and the Olympic Games. When I have all of those, I will stop racing. "



We only got 2 more years of Remco.

I'm surprised Milan-San Remo isn't on the list. I would count him among the favourites in that race even on current form.
Flanders and Roubaix too possibly, strange to me he prefers LBL and Lombardy.

Anyway, it's just something i read on a Belgian newspaper's website. It's possible that it's not true, i don't even know what would be more impressive. Him coming back from the dead, or him not dying in the first place but being held back by a mechanical.

How about his fetching water bottles for Mas just a couple kms before making his attack? :lol:

 

[SafeBet]

Yeah, Milano-Sanremo looks like a veyy good race for him. Hopefully DQS has him riding it already next year. First successful attack before the Poggio in many years.

 

[red_flanders]

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Are we really criticizing him already? Wow.

Actually i brought up his diet and weight in the past in this topic. Not to criticize him, but to show there still is plenty of room for improvement. The most important thing is that he knows, and is consciously not pushing his body to the limit with diets and weight loss, untill he feels he's physically full grown..

The context in which you mentioned it was totally fine. My comment was because someone was question if he was "...the next Jan Ullrich". Let's maybe give the kid a small break.