oh, my! VDP calls remco "borderline arrogant" and then in the very next breath says that you will never see him busting his ass for another rider in the TDF like Van Aert did...
talk about arrogant.
huge fan of VDP after Amstel last year.
prefer Van Aert and Remco now without a doubt.
Best to take whatever you read with a pinch of salt before verifying. Same thing with Evenepoel losing 5kg according to CN (which was false). Or same thing with him having to lose weight in order to do Grand Tours (the initial quote was about van Aert, not Evenepoel).
Same here, the original quote is not at all as extreme:
“Al vind ik vind zijn uitspraken soms op het randje, maar iedereen is zoals hij is: als hij de dingen zo wil zeggen, moet hij dat vooral doen”, klinkt het. “Voor ons kan dat arrogant overkomen, maar in zijn ogen geeft het waarschijnlijk vooral blijk van zelfvertrouwen. Nu, hij mag dan grootse uitspraken doen, vaak antwoordt hij ook met de pedalen. Straf, hoor! Weet je, ik heb ook al gezegd dat ik in de drie disciplines wereldtop wil worden, mét Olympisch goud op de mountainbike. Dat zijn óók ambitieuze uitspraken.”
google translated:
(EDIT: i edited the translation to what i feel most closely fits what he meant)
“Although I sometimes find his statements edgey, but everyone is the way he is: if that's the way he wants to say things, then he should certainly do so,” he says. “This may come across as arrogant to us, but in his mind it probably mainly shows self-confidence. Well, he may make great statements, but he often answers with the pedals as well. Impressive! You know, I also said that I want to become world top in the three disciplines, with Olympic gold on the mountain bike. Those are also ambitious statements. ”