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

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"He has had a good time in Livigno, where he mainly worked at his base. Many trainings without specific intervals, more based on his feeling."

That's interesting. In principle, the trainer should know how to train him to maximize his output. It looks like he doesn't trust the procedure anymore and has already parted ways and decided to just do what feels right to him.
He's doing more difficult trainings afterwards. I wonder how long he's staying at Calpe. There are 2 weeks between the end of Tour of Britain and WC ITT. Time difference is negligible, but he might need some time adapting to the environment. Not sure what they've said beforehand about this.
 
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It makes sense and completely normal to have discussion regarding him aswell dont get me wrong you missing my point and perception and the meaning behind my question.
Thanks, I think I do understand your point, maybe not the meaning behind it.
As for my part I dont agree I simply dont get why he is constantly put next to Pogacar as a focal point when thats not realistic, my part was more a question in relation to posts i constanly read everytime im here,than anything else, and the reason I asked, also because I admit my view might be skewed or wrong since I’m not here very often., see where im coming from and my view? hence the question
I'm not sure I see it as constant, and I'm in the thread quite a bit, so I question that premise. Subjective of course, YMMV.

Maybe it seems a bit that you come here to re-iterate over and over that he's not close to Pogacar. Seems like you really, really want to make that point. Fair, and also fair to say maybe he will be some day. We've certainly seen our share of transformations or surprising improvement in many riders over the years, not the least of whom is our friend Tadej. So why not Remco? He's closer that most, and he's the goal, so again I don't see why he wouldn't be the focal point of many comparisons.

To me, it seems like every time I am here, Pogacar is constantly positioned as the focal point in relation to Remco, in the sense he is the only guy he needs to overcome, when he in fact he isnt the closest rival to Remco even, get my point? More as in theres far more/reasonable better focal points to focus on as well. It was a sincere question.
I don't really see that, I think a lot of people just don't find Vingegaard very interesting to talk about. Maybe I'm projecting. He's boring personally. He really only rides GT's. He's conservative on the bike in many ways. Tadej is cool AF and attacks all the time, riding everything from Roubaix to the TdF. He's tons more interesting, and he's the best. So of course he's the focal point.
 
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Here's the reality as I can find it:
2025 Tour l'Avenir Stage 5 to Tignes:
Won: Jarno Widar, Sextas 2nd and 3 others within 8 seconds & overall time of 3:34:48
Distance: 121 km
Vertical: 3,864 meters

2021 Tour Stage 18 to Col De Portet:
Won: Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vindegaard 3 seconds behind & overall time of 3:33:45
Distance: 178.4 km
Vertical: 4,375 meters

So how are these two efforts remotely comparable? Tadej and Jonas in a contentious stage 18, 57km longer, more vertical of 511 and an overall time of a minute faster are pretty much what my of incomparable events.

And from those disparate races you suggest that Pogacar in 2021 is somehow related to Pogacar 2025 and the new kids are better...
Amazing.
 
So basically Rogla and Remco fans will argue on who should do the Giro? Crazy. Just send them both.

send rogla and Lipo to the TDF, I mean world climbing championships, then

I'd love for Remco to sweep the worlds this year and tell Gouvenou and Guillen to F right off. Prudhomme has to do something at that point, or his job as director du cyclisme of ASO becomes in danger
 
send rogla and Lipo to the TDF, I mean world climbing championships, then

I'd love for Remco to sweep the worlds this year and tell Gouvenou and Guillen to F right off. Prudhomme has to do something at that point, or his job as director du cyclisme of ASO becomes in danger
I think RBH will send Evenepoel to the TDF no matter the course. Not to mention Evenepoel probably wants to ride a normal and long spring campaign which works better with TDF than Giro
 
According to HLN the team for WC will be as follows:
  1. Evenepoel (SOQ, ITT/RR)
  2. Van Wilder (SOQ, ITT/RR)
  3. Uijtdebroeks (Visma, RR)
  4. Benoot (Visma, RR)
  5. Campenaerts (Visma, RR)
  6. F. Vermeersch (UAE, ITT/RR)
  7. Q. Hermans (ADC, RR)
  8. Meurisse (ADC, RR)
I don't understand why you would bring Hermans or Meurisse instead of Vervaeke. The rest seems logical to me knowing WVA is too tired, Van Gils doesn't want to make the trip, and Wellens cares more about Pogacar than his country.

 
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According to HLN the team for WC will be as follows:
  1. Evenepoel (SOQ, ITT/RR)
  2. Van Wilder (SOQ, ITT/RR)
  3. Uijtdebroeks (Visma, RR)
  4. Benoot (Visma, RR)
  5. Campenaerts (Visma, RR)
  6. F. Vermeersch (UAE, ITT/RR)
  7. Q. Hermans (ADC, RR)
  8. Meurisse (ADC, RR)
I don't understand why you would bring Hermans or Meurisse instead of Vervaeke. The rest seems logical to me knowing WVA is too tired, Van Gils doesn't want to make the trip, and Wellens cares more about Pogacar than his country.

This has been confirmed.

I'm also mostly surprised by the exclusion of Vervaeke, especially since he's supposed to be close to Evenepoel (but maybe something changed between them after Remco's transfer to Bora).
 
This has been confirmed.

I'm also mostly surprised by the exclusion of Vervaeke, especially since he's supposed to be close to Evenepoel (but maybe something changed between them after Remco's transfer to Bora).
And he was riding quite attractively in the Vuelta and seemed to be in good form. Was also normally going to TDF. I don't think something changed between them, it's just Pauwels that thinks other riders might be better suited.
 
It's a fair point WRT individual stage wins, it decreases the interest for him. But WRT winning GT's, the TT's of today really have almost zero impact. You have to win in the mountains. TT's have been devalued to uselessness.

which is why if the giro has a 2024 course that has a legit amount of TT, he needs to race there. 75km of flat ITT can make a big difference
 
It's a fair point WRT individual stage wins, it decreases the interest for him. But WRT winning GT's, the TT's of today really have almost zero impact. You have to win in the mountains. TT's have been devalued to uselessness.
It's sad. The believe must be that race becomes more interesting because TTs are "boring" but you get the opposite. Hard and long mountain climbs is all about the watt/kg edge. If you have a clear edge it becomes easy to gain minutes and win the race. A good balance with TTs bring others in the game too with different qualities.

Due to the focus on watt/kg you get all kinds of optimizations on the edge and surely also over the edge (clinic stuff) because you are basically guaranteed to win if you control that part. It was already an issue when Armstrong was controlling the game and I fear that it just got worse ...

But back to Remco. If he wants to win the TdF some day, becoming better and more consistent at climbing should be his focus. A TT win is just a nice extra, nothing more.