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

[Extinction]

The Italian Eurosport commentaters were even saying with the crosswind something is about to happen, Vingo, Pogi, MVdP were at the front, while Remco and Soudal were in 70th position. Amateurish. Fools.

 

[KenFiamingo]

Another Klaas Lodewijck masterpiece?

 

[peterfin]

I’m so annoyed by his lack of taking stages like this seriously. Even if there was a very very very small chance of winning the Tour, it’s gone. Taking yellow stage 5, gone.

He will never win the TdF in a team that is not 100% focussed on winning the TdF and does not use all methods available to do so. I hope he gets it. He is a teamplayer so quiting QS might be a huge thing for him but he need to

 

[Red Rick]

Absolute masterclass to already drop time here so any criticism can just be thrown at the team rather than the man himself.

 

[peterfin]

Absolute masterclass to already drop time here so any criticism can just be thrown at the team rather than the man himself.

The man himself is first to blame. He should have been more attentative.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Handtekeningen uitdelen is nu niet aan de orde voor Remco Evenepoel: "Get out of my way, please" | sporza

Rit 1 van de Tour de France leverde absoluut niet het verhoopte resultaat op voor Remco Evenepoel. Soudal-Quick Step liet zich verrassen bij de waaierslag in het slot van de koers. Het resultaat: 39 seconden verlies in het klassement. Evenepoel zat bij zijn hoofd dan ook niet meteen bij...

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Good man Remco. who does that little *** think he is disturbing a 2x Olympic champ like that!

 

[Hugh Januss]

The man himself is first to blame. He should have been more attentative.

Bora and Quick-Step between them had 8 in that second group including Merlier and Meeus, you might think it would be worth putting at least 2 guys each into the chase both for GC and for the stage win.

 

[Extinction]

The man himself is first to blame. He should have been more attentative.

Absolutely, it's incredible the two favorites are at the very front during conditions any junior would know could lead to echelons, and Remco's making blueberry muffins at the back.

And what of the "Wolf Pack"? As a Belgian squad should they not know something about danger of echelons? The amateur nature of it is mind-boggling, especially since they came with Remco for GC and Merlier for this finish. Unbelievable.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Handtekeningen uitdelen is nu niet aan de orde voor Remco Evenepoel: "Get out of my way, please" | sporza

Rit 1 van de Tour de France leverde absoluut niet het verhoopte resultaat op voor Remco Evenepoel. Soudal-Quick Step liet zich verrassen bij de waaierslag in het slot van de koers. Het resultaat: 39 seconden verlies in het klassement. Evenepoel zat bij zijn hoofd dan ook niet meteen bij...

sporza.be

Good man Remco. who does that little *** think he is disturbing a 2x Olympic champ like that!

Well he did say please. But you can just see the happiness quickly disappear from the boy's face.
I hope he can recover from this. That goes for the fan, too.

 

[ppanther92]

The man himself is first to blame. He should have been more attentative.

I have an even crazier hypothesis - it would be ok to be on the active part of such splits even sometimes, like, well, Vingegaard and Pogacar usually are.

Bad racing by Evenepoel and the team.

Bad reaction to that boy.

Bad start ot the Tour.

 

[Billy The Kid]

The man himself is first to blame. He should have been more attentative.

Agreed!What is the point of being really attentative in the first part of the stage, and totally turned off in the last decisive part!I cant get my head around this one, he should have been easy with the first group.

Merlier and Van Lerberghe was in a good position only a couple of kilometers before the split. Maybe they got called back to help Remco?If so a missed opportunity for Merlier to win the stage and get yellow. He is clearly a better sprinter then Phillipsen (atleast before the tour) He would have ripped apart that sprint.

Have to wait for interview/statement from Remco and the team before we can finally conclude, but this was shocking and sad for the rest of the tour.

 

[Extinction]

Agreed!What is the point of being really attentative in the first part of the stage, and totally turned off in the last decisive part!I cant get my head around this one, he should have been easy with the first group.

Merlier and Van Lerberghe was in a good position only a couple of kilometers before the split. Maybe they got called back to help Remco?If so a missed opportunity for Merlier to win the stage and get yellow. He is clearly a better sprinter then Phillipsen (atleast before the tour) He would have ripped apart that sprint.

Have to wait for interview/statement from Remco and the team before we can finally conclude, but this was shocking and sad for the rest of the tour.

To the bolded, I couldn't find any Saudal riders in good position. At the time, I was like wtf are you guys doing so far back. Vingo, Pogi, MvdP are at the tip of the race, there is wind, and you are in the belly of the group. Wtf.

 

[houtdffan]

he said he was in 70th. Thought things were calm in the peloton...

I'm starting to think he may not be very intelligent

 

[Frobisher Bay]

The same mess as in the Dauphine, but no chance to fix this in the Tour off course. Really pathetic racing, if Pogacar moves to the front where Visma is gathering and Vingegaard is up in front you need to be there. "We were caught sleeping" yeah right... Very frustrating, expect him to drop more time in the coming stages. He just can not position himself. Klaas Lodewijck is a silly spineless fanboy.

 

[peterfin]

Absolutely, it's incredible the two favorites are at the very front during conditions any junior would know could lead to echelons, and Remco's making blueberry muffins at the back.

And what of the "Wolf Pack"? As a Belgian squad should they not know something about danger of echelons? The amateur nature of it is mind-boggling, especially since they came with Remco for GC and Merlier for this finish. Unbelievable.

QS was known to be an echelon team and a TTT team. With 8 potential sprints stages where echelons are a possibility you make sure that you have that covered.

 

[Extinction]

he said he was in 70th. Thought things were calm in the peloton...

I'm starting to think he may not be very intelligent.

That's what I estimated above, does it make me smarter than him?🧐

 

[red_flanders]

Pretty disappointing.

At what point is tooling around in 70th a plan for a podium contender on a stage with potential echelons?

Always rooted for Remco as I'm hoping for a Belgian Tour winner someday, but...you'd think the Belgians would be all over a stage like this. The boy just don't ride like I wish he did.

 

[Miss Violet Smith]

So, VPP trying to bring G2 back was something.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Already lost his opportunity to wear the yellow jersey.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Another Remco moment!

Why root for a guy that doesn't want to win?

 

[kingjr]

Another Remco moment!

Why root for a guy that doesn't want to win?

Did Merlier not want to win either?

 

[dobrien]

he said he was in 70th. Thought things were calm in the peloton...

I'm starting to think he may not be very intelligent

?!?! That's so insane and frustrating; it's just becoming a constant with him. "Thought things were calm...."? I have been a fan of his for a long time but this kind of thing makes it harder. It's stage 1 of the Tour, even if things are momentarily calm it's not rocket science to understand things can and will go thermonuclear in the blink of an eye. You are Remco Evenepoel, it's THE TOUR DE FRANCE, you're here for GC, you glue yourself to Tadej and Jonas, end of story. Good lord.

 

[Flamin]

This is simply inexcusable, from himself, and the team. Pure amateur level.

Maybe they should ask Lefevere to come back out of retirement.

 

[dobrien]

Maybe they should ask Lefevere to come back out of retirement.

Weeeellll, let's not go THAT far...

 

[pelotonIQ]

Did Merlier not want to win either?

Couldn't care less, Tim can always go at it next sprint stage and nothing has changed. Giving away 40 seconds on GC though, good luck with that.