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

[Red Rick]

Smart race. Dumb crash.

 

[Berflamand]

Nicely done. Impressive sprint.

As expected, other teams had numbers in the final but Hirt was good and he usually grows in a GT so he should be a great domestique in the high mountains. Vervaeke was also solid as always. Hopefully Knox can still grow a bit in the race but overall not a bad team performance.

As long as multiple other teams (mostly Jumbo and UAE) keep having numbers they will likely neutralize each other most of the time.

Hopefully no crash consequences!

 

[Bakkie]

Hope he is oke the next days and weeks.

 

[Big Doopie]

Standing by for the next 25 pages of why Remco doesn't have to use his brakes. Everyone else needs to get out of his way.

Standing by for the next 25 pages of haters complaining that their butts hurt.

 

[KZD]

Apart from the unfortunate crash after the finish line, Remco's sprint against Vingegård today reminded me of Pogačar's on stage 18 of the Tour 2021 where he manage to drop the Dane from his wheel and win the stage on a MTF.

Right now, both Pogačar and Remco are looking quite similar to each other, Pogačar is perhaps a bit better on the harder climbs and in the cobbles/gravel but Remco is better in the time trials. Sadly, Vingegård is the strongest on the harder climbs but if he doesn't recover his monster Tour shape, Remco has a real shot of winning his second Vuelta.

 

[Volderke]

This thread is better with pictures of the subject of this thread.
I found this recent one:

 

[red_flanders]

Smart race. Dumb crash.

This.

 

[Berniece]

Great race, looked very calm all day, and was able to drop the hammer in the end

 

[Extinction]

Standing by for the next 25 pages of haters complaining that their butts hurt.

Wait a minute, in the post stage interview he said the journalists were too close and after everything so far, well, "it's starting to break my balls". Verbatim. So, I can understand his frustration, but here he only fuels the hostility towards his character by those who see him as a badly behaved brat. It wasn't the fault of the journalists. He should have breaked sooner.

 

[Berniece]

Wait a minute, in the post stage interview he said the journalists were too close and after everything so far, well, "it's starting to break my balls". Verbatim. So, I can understand his frustration, but here he only fuels the hostility towards his character by those who see him as a badly behaved brat. It wasn't the fault of the journalists. He should have breaked sooner.

Combination of multiple factors. He should brake sooner, organisation needs to make sure that there’s enough room for journalists AND riders

 

[kingjr]

That definitely looks like a mild concussion to me. Let's see if everyone around him will pretend not to notice.

 

[roundabout]

Combination of multiple factors. He should brake sooner, organisation needs to make sure that there’s enough room for journalists AND riders

Riders who want to celebrate first and think about their own safety later

 

[Extinction]

Combination of multiple factors. He should brake sooner, organisation needs to make sure that there’s enough room for journalists AND riders

Sure, but it's the Latin Vuelta, the juornos are always more or less that close on a MTF.

 

[Extinction]

Riders who want to celebrate first and think about their own safety later

Now this is just stupid. He didn't realize the danger before him. It was a mistake, but had nothing to do with not being concerned about his own safety.

 

[roundabout]

Wait a minute, in the post stage interview he said the journalists were too close and after everything so far, well, "it's starting to break my balls". Verbatim. So, I can understand his frustration, but here he only fuels the hostility towards his character by those who see him as a badly behaved brat. It wasn't the fault of the journalists. He should have breaked sooner.

I can see it partly as an attempt to have ammunition to pressure the organization into another makeup call down the road should he need it

 

[Extinction]

I can see it partly as an attempt to have ammunition to pressure the organization into another makeup call down the road should he need it

No.

 

[roundabout]

Now this is just stupid. He didn't realize the danger before him. It was a mistake, but had nothing to do with not being concerned about his own safety.

Fine, change my post to riders who don't want to pay attention.

It is still the same thing, the finish area now apparently has to be safe for riders who do not pay attention to their surroundings.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Super smart ride. Anyone but the Jumbos!

 

[Volderke]

I think it's time natural born winners like Remco do a serious prep of post-finish hectometers, at racing speed.
In this way, they can time how long they can celebrate and examine possible escape routes.

 

[roundabout]

No.

Feel free to disagree. Let's see what happens during the rest of the race.

 

[Berniece]

Riders who want to celebrate first and think about their own safety later

How weird that a rider celebrates when he wins. Never seen that before. The audacity and arrogance of Evenepoel to put his arms in the air. Who does he think he is?

 

[nightowl]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1696202728425259380

View: https://twitter.com/SpoelJo/status/1696202728425259380


I posted this in the race thread too, but from the overhead it’s pretty clear that 1) his celebration was hardly too long or excessive and 2) the run-off was made needlessly short and narrow, and was being blocked off by a crowd of people

 

[roundabout]

How weird that a rider celebrates when he wins. Never seen that before. The audacity and arrogance of Evenepoel to put his arms in the air. Who does he think he is?

Huh?

There was literally nothing about the finish area today that prevented Evenepoel both from celebrating and not crashing.

 

[Extinction]

Fine, change my post to riders who don't want to pay attention.

It is still the same thing, the finish area now apparently has to be safe for riders who do not pay attention to their surroundings.

It has nothing to do with "wanting" not to pay attention, sometimes it just happens. Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum (as you are intentionally doing with your intentional deprecations).

 

[Volderke]

Huh?

There was literally nothing about the finish area today that prevented Evenepoel both from celebrating and not crashing.

From the overhead shot, I saw that other riders (Vingegaard) also had to brake hard and those riders were having their hands on the brakes all the time. It's a bit sad when you can't make a victory salute because the organisation decided that 50 meters from the finish to the barriers (yes, I measured that) would be enough.

Those barriers made people in that zone feel like they were in a good spot as they all thought riders wouldn't need the space as the barriers were so close. On top of that, while people at that location are supposed to have a badge and work for teams or the organisation, half of them were filming with their phone, so it was more like a fanzone than a zone with people dedicated to support the riders / race.

ps: here is the finish: https://goo.gl/maps/p51UnnvmimzXSQU16