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

[Oldman]

Yeah, but Remco and Mathieu targets the same races. Remco is no Philipsen.

And in that regard Remco is not Mathieu in most of them.

 

[AmRacer]

And in that regard Remco is not Mathieu in most of them.

There was a discussion Mathieu would help Remco winning more races.
I argue Mathieu wouldn't do that because they will target the same races, and Mathieu then only races for himself.

 

[Extinction]

It's time for Remco to demonstrate his exceptional talent against the two best. In his first pro years he did things only Pog could match, but then the devastating Lombardia crash, misguided re-entry at the Giro, followed by a series of successes and setbacks involving illness and further bad crashes, have made his trajectory a roller coaster ride. Then there have been issues with his team and ways of preparing him, which have been criticized for lack of firepower and incompetance. All throughout, however, the unusual talent has been unquestionably there. The team situation is what it is, for the moment anyway, but hopefully they've learned enough from the past to give Remco the best shot of being competitive against those two. It's the climbing that has to come up several notches, but third in your first Tour, however you look at it, means you are a fierce climber. In this age of super talents, the parcours should go back to those which gave each an opportunity to shine, meaning long, hard mountain stages, but also one or even two long flat to rolling TTs. It would make the route more balanced, test weaknesses in different GC impacting disciplines and make the race more gripping. At any rate, go Remco!

 

[Berniece]

It's time for Remco to demonstrate his exceptional talent against the two best. In his first pro years he did things only Pog could match, but then the devastating Lombardia crash, misguided re-entry at the Giro, followed by a series of successes and setbacks involving illness and further bad crashes, have made his trajectory a roller coaster ride. Then there have been issues with his team and ways of preparing him, which have been criticized for lack of firepower and incompetance. All throughout, however, the unusual talent has been unquestionably there. The team situation is what it is, for the moment anyway, but hopefully they've learned enough from the past to give Remco the best shot of being competitive against those two. It's the climbing that has to come up several notches, but third in your first Tour, however you look at it, means you are a fierce climber. In this age of super talents, the parcours should go back to those which gave each an opportunity to shine, meaning long, hard mountain stages, but also one or even two long flat to rolling TTs. It would make the route more balanced, test weaknesses in different GC impacting disciplines and make the race more gripping. At any rate, go Remco!

Preparation for Dauphine and TDF apparently went really well. They had one of the best altitude trainings, where most riders are pushing their best values ever. Remco was feeling very calm and not rushed like last year which is a good sign.

Dauphine should at least be better than last year.

 

[Extinction]

Preparation for Dauphine and TDF apparently went really well. They had one of the best altitude trainings, where most riders are pushing their best values ever. Remco was feeling very calm and not rushed like last year which is a good sign.

Dauphine should at least be better than last year.

He needs a mental boost by seeing he can digest their excellerations in the mountains in prospect of the Tour, not necessarily match them, but be there or thereabouts and then keep fighting while building strength and confidence. Lefebvre talks about "falling through the ice" in terms of not having a solid enough foundation, but I think the ice needs to be thick enough at the Dauphine to resist falling through when Pog and Vingo attack. Of course, you still need to have a margin to improve, but this is the method, not falling through the ice, to being actually competitive in July.

 

[KoopaCycling]

it's gonna be very interesting this time next week. for good or bad