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

[AmRacer]

I look at Evenepoel’s spring form differently. He’s going for the classics, he’s not in GT shape. I have the feeling Evenepoel improved this season, at least that was my thought after De Ronde. We’ll see in AGR and LBL.

One day racing isn't one or three week GC. Nobody should be in GT shape

 

[red_flanders]

LBL is Remco territory, if Sexias could keep up...

We'll see. I wouldn't bet against Sexias right now.

 

[Extinction]

We'll see. I wouldn't bet against Sexias right now.

Seixas did something today that neither Tadej nor Jonas could do at 19. And he descended like Pidcock. This kid is an earthquake.

 

[Berniece]

One day racing isn't one or three week GC. Nobody should be in GT shape

No ***, and everybody has the same physiology, weight and height

 

[KoopaCycling]

One day racing isn't one or three week GC. Nobody should be in GT shape

Vingegaard is or is working towards it as we speak.

 

[AmRacer]

Vingegaard is or is working towards it as we speak.

Yeah, working towards

 

[Pozzovivo]

This was a(nother) bad day for my "Remco will win the Tour" position. Seixas is really bad news, I must admit. Let's hope for a Moser-Indurain-Wiggins style tour design in 27' and 28'.

 

[Red Rick]

This was a(nother) bad day for my "Remco will win the Tour" position. Seixas is really bad news, I must admit. Let's hope for a Moser-Indurain-Wiggins style tour design in 27' and 28'.

Relax. Seixas is already 19.

Remco meanwhile is still only 26

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Ok so given the continued acceleration of Pog and the rocket that is Paul Seixas, not to mention the still great Vingegaard who would win every Tour 2010-2023 in his current form, what is Remco’s play now? In light of his RVV I kind of think given this Tour a go then, barring something crazy, go all in on classics + Vueltas and forget the Tour.

 

[Red Rick]

Ok so given the continued acceleration of Pog and the rocket that is Paul Seixas, not to mention the still great Vingegaard who would win every Tour 2010-2023 in his current form, what is Remco’s play now? In light of his RVV I kind of think given this Tour a go then, barring something crazy, go all in on classics + Vueltas and forget the Tour.

Keep talking big and keep underdelivering until the Belgian and cycling media finally catch up

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

Seixas did something today that neither Tadej nor Jonas could do at 19. And he descended like Pidcock. This kid is an earthquake.

I wouldn't compare Jonas to Tadej either. When Pogacar was winning his first Tour, Vingegaard, being older than him, was a domestique.

Seixas is going to win his first major one week race. Remco, at 26, still doesn't have one. Worrying.

I don't know what will happen in Liège. If Seixas continues this absurd monthly improvement, considering how much he's improved since Algarve, the gap between him and Remco in Lombardy or European Championship will be reversed.

 

[Extinction]

I wouldn't compare Jonas to Tadej either. When Pogacar was winning his first Tour, Vingegaard, being older than him, was a domestique.

Seixas is going to win his first major one week race. Remco, at 26, still doesn't have one. Worrying.

I don't know what will happen in Liège. If Seixas continues this absurd monthly improvement, considering how much he's improved since Algarve, the gap between him and Remco in Lombardy or European Championship will be reversed.

I just meant the two, Pog and Jonas, dominant Tour riders of this and, on certain performances, any generation. And yet at 19 neither could do the performance of Paul yesterday, which was insanely formidabile.