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

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Havent watched UAE, is Remco fat or just useless?

Dont know about fat, but definitively useless. Barely scraping a top 10 in UAE is pathetic.

 

[Netserk]

Remco saying he had a cold this week. His UAE performances would make some sense then (is it a valid excuse?)

“I hadn't fully digested those first races… I was also a bit ill” - Remco Evenepoel looks for answers as UAE Tour disappointment continues on Jebel Hafeet

For the second time this week at the UAE Tour 2026, Remco Evenepoel was forced to explain rather than celebrate. Dropped again on the decisive slopes of Jebel Hafeet, the Belgian admitted in a post-st...

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new interview new excuse

if he was affected by illness before the race, why blame the first climb on the ac

 

[canina82]

new interview new excuse

if he was affected by illness before the race, why blame the first climb on the ac

This dude has a problem with accountability.
Regarding Bora, why are they doing the same thing as Quickstep and wait for 2027 to judge if Remco needs to lose weight or not?
This dude should be 63 kg already. I fear they will make Remco to "waste" 2 seasons to find his best program (which I believe is racing all monuments) and see he is not a top 5 GT rider anymore.

 

[Jan the Man]

I would not read too much into UAE, certainly not for likely form in the Ardennes say. However I think everybody would have expected him to be more competitive on the MTF with reference to some of those who finished ahead of him.

 

[Berniece]

new interview new excuse

if he was affected by illness before the race, why blame the first climb on the ac

Again, cold was before UAE Tour and he said not an excuse. It’s like you deliberately try to shape the story into what it’s not for your own agenda

 

[Netserk]

Again, cold was before UAE Tour and he said not an excuse. It’s like you deliberately try to shape the story into what it’s not for your own agenda

yeah i wrote " before the race "

so he knew as much after the first climb as today about his illness

yet he only tacks on a new excuse after the previous excuse expired . if it was the illness all along , why not say that after the first climb instead of muh ac

 

[Berniece]

yeah i wrote " before the race "

so he knew as much after the first climb as today about his illness

yet he only tacks on a new excuse after the previous excuse expired . if it was the illness all along , why not say that after the first climb instead of muh ac

Because it never was the illness, that’s what he is saying

 

[AmRacer]

I would not read too much into UAE, certainly not for likely form in the Ardennes say. However I think everybody would have expected him to be more competitive on the MTF with reference to some of those who finished ahead of him.

But he has won the UAE Tour and LBL same season.

 

[peterfin]

This dude has a problem with accountability.
Regarding Bora, why are they doing the same thing as Quickstep and wait for 2027 to judge if Remco needs to lose weight or not?
This dude should be 63 kg already. I fear they will make Remco to "waste" 2 seasons to find his best program (which I believe is racing all monuments) and see he is not a top 5 GT rider anymore.

Why has he accountability issues? Because you think he makes up stuff to avoid responsability? That's just not true. He obviously looks for answers why he could beat guys two weeks ago that now gain more than a minute on him. Regardless, he does conclude that he is just not good enough this week. He will feel bad because he is a team-player and he let the team down. He will punish himself during training to become better. RBH values him exactly because he has that accountability and mentality that has the potential to lift a whole team.

 

[Netserk]

Because it never was the illness, that’s what he is saying

he cast the magic spell " but its no excuse " , thus negating what he said

~the dog ate my homework ... but its no excuse

 

[canina82]

Why has he accountability issues? Because you think he makes up stuff to avoid responsability? That's just not true. He obviously looks for answers why he could beat guys two weeks ago that now gain more than a minute on him. Regardless, he does conclude that he is just not good enough this week. He will feel bad because he is a team-player and he let the team down. He will punish himself during training to become better. RBH values him exactly because he has that accountability and mentality that has the potential to lift a whole team.

This is where we disagree. So he got a cold before UAE Tour but still said he would want to win 2 stages + GC, now after the AC excuse, he uses his ilness to justify his level and his loss.
Yes, he doesn't know what his accountability. He does the same thing over and over again.

 

[Berniece]

he cast the magic spell " but its no excuse " , thus negating what he said

~the dog ate my homework ... but its no excuse

Yes, that’s how it works. When you something isn’t so, you mean it isn’t so.

 

[Berniece]

He uses his ilness to justify his level and his loss

No, he doesn’t.