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

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He even said he wanted to do De Ronde earlier but Quick Step wouldn't let him.

The biggest Belgian team, who has been struggling to get a meaningful result in the biggest Belgian race for the past decade, would refuse their most marketable and most promising rider to ride De Ronde?

Sure thing.
You could excuse the stupid lies and annoying announcement as a marketing ploy but there's absolutely no reason for him to say this.

 

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Going to rewatch Byron Munton and Mathys Rondel dropping him in the UAE tour

 

[Berniece]

He even said he wanted to do De Ronde earlier but Quick Step wouldn't let him.

The biggest Belgian team, who has been struggling to get a meaningful result in the biggest Belgian race for the past decade, would refuse their most marketable and most promising rider to ride De Ronde?

Sure thing.
You could excuse the stupid lies and annoying announcement as a marketing ploy but there's absolutely no reason for him to say this.

Unless it’s true?

 

[AlpRaid]

Really it’s his word against Lefevre’s. Who in their right mind would believe Lefevre? Lol.

Besides, we are really not looking at many possibilities:

2019 barely 19 no way
2020 COVID and his first monument was Lombardia when he almost died
2021 couldn’t ride as he was still rehabilitating
2022 still coming back to full fitness, chose Basque to prep for LBL and that worked.
2023 really the ONLY legitimately missed RVV in his career (but he was also on Giro prep calendar and had to go to altitude before defending his LBL)
2024 Basque crash while prepping TDF
2025 couldn’t ride because of postal crash

People truly forget how much serious crashes (and illnesses) have impeded his career and caused him to miss out on whole chunks of seasons, delaying his participation in many races.

 

[AmRacer]

Really it’s his word against Lefevre’s. Who in their right mind would believe Lefevre? Lol.

Besides, we are really not looking at many possibilities:

2019 barely 19 no way
2020 COVID and his first monument was Lombardia when he almost died
2021 couldn’t ride as he was still rehabilitating
2022 still coming back to full fitness, chose Basque to prep for LBL and that worked.
2023 really the ONLY legitimately missed RVV in his career (but he was also on Giro prep calendar and had to go to altitude before defending his LBL)
2024 Basque crash while prepping TDF
2025 couldn’t ride because of postal crash

People truly forget how much serious crashes (and illnesses) have impeded his career and caused him to miss out on whole chunks of seasons, delaying his participation in many races.

He could ride 2022 and 2024, but the focus was elsewhere.