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

[ashhutch1997]

I don’t think this years Vuelta is a good benchmark for Remco’s performance in GT’s. Without covid the Giro would’ve been a great comparison.

I can definitely see him finish on the podium, time will tell.

I certainly hope he can prove me wrong! It's great for cycling to have a rider from Belgium competing in the Tour.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Especially with the gravel stage (it would be very Remco to be in yellow, but have everything go wrong there) I don't think this is a good route for him. The Giro is better, but it would be hard to reject the Tour (and Vingegaard and Pogacar) yet again.

 

[Froome]

That's a huge mistake IMO, given that all the big boys are going to the Tour and the Giro route suits him so well.

It doesn't make sense for remco to miss another year of his career without doing the most important race in the world.
Even if he loses, he needs to test himself against pogacar and specially vingegaard to see how far he is terms of level between each one of them.

I'm not a fan of him(i'm a fan on vingegaard and van der poel), but he is not a wheelsucker like others, he always give entertainment, so i want him in the Tour, with van der poel, Vingegaard, pogacar, to make a entertaining race, and not a boring race with a bunch of wheelsuckers like we saw in the Giro of this year.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Especially with the gravel stage (it would be very Remco to be in yellow, but have everything go wrong there) I don't think this is a good route for him. The Giro is better, but it would be hard to reject the Tour (and Vingegaard and Pogacar) yet again.

I can see him loosing a lot of time, especially if it's wet.

 

[AmRacer]

Especially with the gravel stage (it would be very Remco to be in yellow, but have everything go wrong there) I don't think this is a good route for him. The Giro is better, but it would be hard to reject the Tour (and Vingegaard and Pogacar) yet again.

Kuss and Rogla will be there too.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Giro + Tour double would be cool.
All in for the win at the Giro with a full team around him and then go to the Tour and see how it goes with a mixed team.

Giro: Remco, Landa, Van Wilder, Hirt, Cattaneo, Vervaeke, Serry & Cerny.
Tour: Remco, Alaphilippe, Merlier, Asgreen, Lampaert, Pedersen, a donkey (Cerny?) & Vansevant/ Landa or another guy from Giro team.

Then Van Wilder can try to lead the team at Vuelta, Landa might go there if he does Giro+Vuelta over Giro+Tour and Merlier can go there with a couple of leadout guys.

 

[Rob5091]

Let the mind games begin! Is it all a rouse to get Pogacar to attempt the Giro-Tour double?

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...evere-opens-up-on-remco-evenepoels-2024-plans

“We have to draw up a balanced program before the Tour. The Giro-Tour combination is not yet one hundred percent ruled out, but it is not recommended," says Lefevere, who concludes with the surest sign yet of Evenepoel's Tour de France involvement. “There is a good chance, yes."

I don't suppose for 1 minute that Remco will try the double, especially with the Olympics next year.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Hopefully this means Fausto can lead in the Giro, maybe a co leader with Van Welder. Remco is very unlikely to win le tour, Giro suit him better, but who can blame him for trying.

 

[Red Rick]

Giro-Tour would actually be really ballsy to do IMO, but IMO the problem with that is probably the Olympics.

I do think it's silly to act like this route doesn't suit Evenepoel, it's literally the best route for Evenepoel since maybe 2017 or even longer.

 

[red_flanders]

He’s got all winter to ride gravel and work on what he’ll face in the Tour. It’s not like he lacks the power.

 

[Boehmand]

A journalist from Sporza saw Remco at the train station, and asked him about the Giro-Tour double. Remco said that after knowing the profiles of both races he won't do the Giro. All-in on the Tour de France.

That plan works until stage 4, where Vingegaard and possibly Pogacar puts 5 minutes into him on Galibier.

 

[Boehmand]

I don’t think this years Vuelta is a good benchmark for Remco’s performance in GT’s. Without covid the Giro would’ve been a great comparison.

I can definitely see him finish on the podium, time will tell.

He could, but while I appreciate him greatly as a rider, I think the Tour is still a bridge too far for him (he may be ready in a couple of years).

Vingegaard and Pogacar are a step above, especially in a Tour with 2 mountain stages far above 2.000 metres altitude.

I also think Roglic is better if he can avoid his usual crashes.

Yates/Kuss will have relatively free roles and are probably also better on this mountain rich route.

Evenepoel IMO is at the level of Ayuso/Simon Yates/Bilbao on this route, so it will take luck for him to make the podium.

 

[Boehmand]

Giro-Tour would actually be really ballsy to do IMO, but IMO the problem with that is probably the Olympics.

I do think it's silly to act like this route doesn't suit Evenepoel, it's literally the best route for Evenepoel since maybe 2017 or even longer.

I don't buy that riding GC at the Tour is a good preparation for the Olympics.

It's a long time to stay at peak level, with Galibier on stage 4 - and 2 weeks after the Tour before the Olympics RR.

The Tour is a great preparation if you get to stage hunt and use it to ride yourself into peak condition - like MvdP did before Worlds this year, and for riders like MvdP, WvA, Pedersen, De Lie, Mohoric, Pidcock, Healy, etc., that is what we will see.

But I don't think the GC riders have a prayer at the Olympics.

 

[proffate]

Viking team.

If that includes both Norway and Denmark, I think that would be way too easy. I'm seeing a theme here and this man likes a challenge.

 

[proffate]

I agree with this opinion.

Nys has the potential to be exciting. De Lie already is providing top level entertainment value with 10 bike length victories while stomping his bike to dust. But how anyone can like watching the swamp creature creep around the back of the GC group for three weeks is one of life's biggest mysteries.

 

[Andre]

Nys has the potential to be exciting. De Lie already is providing top level entertainment value with 10 bike length victories while stomping his bike to dust. But how anyone can like watching the swamp creature creep around the back of the GC group for three weeks is one of life's biggest mysteries.

who is the swamp creature?

 

[wheresmybrakes]

who is the swamp creature?

The Dawwwwwg?

 

[red_flanders]

The Dawwwwwg?

He said “ back of GC group”, not the grupetto…😂

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Viking team.

If Vikingarna had been a boyband, then maybe.
I did receive a Christer Sjögren record as a gift once, but I quickly returned it.

 

[AmRacer]

If Vikingarna had been a boyband, then maybe.
I did receive a Christer Sjögren record as a gift once, but I quickly returned it.

Ar du Svenska?

 

[Rob5091]

If Vikingarna had been a boyband, then maybe.
I did receive a Christer Sjögren record as a gift once, but I quickly returned it.

Ahh, Swedish dance bands ...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ar du Svenska?

No, I'm Danish, but for some reason I've filled a part of my brain with knowledge about dansbandsmusik. I very much doubt Remco has done the same.

 

[Berniece]

No, I'm Danish, but for some reason I've filled a part of my brain with knowledge about dansbandsmusik. I very much doubt Remco has done the same.

Definitely not, he’s into hardcore

 

[proffate]

who is the swamp creature?

el joven de Bora

 

[Andre]

el joven de Bora

ah si, ya se quien es