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

[Berniece]

Evenepoel won the Vuelta by losing time in the high mountains to Enricky Mas. But then we back worshipping Sobek in The Nile again.

He was injured…

 

[AmRacer]

Excuses and Explanations galore, as usual.

 

[houtdffan]

Evenepoel won the Vuelta by losing time in the high mountains to Enricky Mas. But then we back worshipping Sobek in The Nile again.

Mas should have ridden his TT bike before the race

Him losing with only 30km of flat ITT is entirely on Mas. If Heras could overcome 100km of flat ITT, no excuses for Mas

 

[AmRacer]

Rogla would've won, if it wasn't for...

 

[Lurkerman]

When I say "Remco to the Giro 2026", I don't actually care if he goes or not, I'm not his biggest fan. It's merely me wondering how it's like to be a top rider of your generation and then race against the goat - if that was me, I'd adopt a bit of loser mentality and not waste all of my top form race days in races that also Pog is in. There should be at least one big season goal where he's far away - and so high stakes racing where that's the case, that could the Giro, next year or some other year, I mean it should be a discussion every year for as long as Pog races on this level.

It also can't be stressed enough how a GT literally is THREE WEEKS LONG in the saddle, and then against Pog - that's a noble endeavor for guys like Jordan Jegat, but I'd hope that guys of Remco's ambition generally have better things do. I'm prone to think the same for Vingegaard, btw, but perhaps he alreday has his two TDF wins and so can't be motivated by anything less. Remco will for sure lose Giro 2026 to Vingegaard if they both start, but at least Jonas is only someone who IMO's merely comparable to guys like Contador or Froome, i.e., riders that you have in every generation and whose voices figure in Remco's internal monologue when he drops on Col du Soulor, so that should be a good benchmark for Remco and worthy of his ambition. TDF against Pog, on the other hand, is just crazy, and so I'm not sure if there's anything inherently noble on Remco's part in signing up for that every year