Never previously won a junior all in one year both the world CHAMPIONSHIP road race and the time trial
Remco Evenepoel writes history
After his world title in the time trial on Tuesday crowned Remco Evenepoel is yesterday, also the world champion for juniors in the road race. Where is the end of this?
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Remco Evenepoel, provides the show to the finish line: “I wanted the season to end as I started in Kuurne.’ Peter The Voecht/photo news
Never previously won a junior all in one year both the world CHAMPIONSHIP road race and the time trial
Remco Evenepoel writes history
After his world title in the time trial on Tuesday crowned Remco Evenepoel is yesterday, also the world champion for juniors in the road race. Where is the end of this?
Eddy Merckx: ‘He is perhaps even better than I
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World CHAMPIONSHIPS juniors
InnsbruckMet an arm of the enthusiastic and at the same time friendly audience what ophitsend took Remco Evenepoel yesterday two kilometres from the finish the bend to the little church of Hötting. The last pitched meters of the world CHAMPIONSHIPS for juniors were on it. In a normal match, this strip is the ultimate opportunity to have a final opponent the final blow. But the Flemish-Brabant had at that point had long ensured that the regenboogstrijd at the junior championships 2018 a place in the history books would claim.
Twenty kilometres before the finish, the persistent aanklampende German Mayrhofer last for the axe gone. What followed, was a matchless solo as Evenepoel they are now all throughout the season from his legs shake. Would a rider ever so much time have got to for the finish his world title to savour?
Doom
Remco Evenepoel was last year, but a few months rider when the media has him already a full page opvoerden. He was seventeen and had never against the international world summit gekoerst. Still, he was a potential tour winner, and even the new Eddy Merckx called, not done for wielerhistorici. National coach Carlo Bomans took him to the world CHAMPIONSHIPS in Bergen as leader of the juniorenploeg. Evenepoel was not in the rash, he had the match be abandoned after a few falls. Grist to the mill of the critics who claimed that he, through his many solo’s not the stuurvaardigheid has to be in a platoon to drive.
Would a rider ever so much time have got to for the finish his world title to savour?
The doomsday scenario of Mountains threatened is yesterday repeat, when at about seventy kilometers from the finish, a massive crash took place. Evenepoel was on foot. Two minutes it took for his mechanical problems fixed and he is on a seemingly hopeless pursuit could begin. Not two hours later he crossed the finish line his bike high in the air. “I wanted the season to end as I started in Kuurne.’
Never before has a junior managed to get on a single world championships both on the road and against the clock to win. The Czech Roman Kreuziger came out in 2004 is the closest to gold in the road race and silver in the time trial. Michal Kwiatkowski is the only other that the two titles combined, spread over two juniorenseizoenen.
New beginning
In the bend at the church of Hötting hit the Dutchman Thomas Dekker yesterday with admiration Evenepoels performance to watch. Also, Dekker was in his own country ever to have a future tour winner, but under the pressure of the high expectations derailed, he joined the pros. “I hope that the good comes with this boy,” he said yesterday, well-intentioned. “For now, it is just beginning for him.”
Evenepoel it for the rest of his career is not easily made. Initially, he planed next year promise to be at the American Hagens Berman – Axeon. The procontinentale team of Axel Merckx has an excellent reputation in the steady training of young talents. But by a not to refuse offer of Team Sky reportedly 250,000 euros to get in and a further 150,000 euros on an annual basis – saw Quick Step Floors are required to have a higher gear to turn and drive Evenepoel from the next year in the WorldTour. Coach Kevin De Weert suggested to him a mixed program to offer, with also a few matches for min-23-year-olds with the national team.
Always sober
A regenboogshirt in the juniors is by no means a guarantee for a successful pro career. This is the row names that are in the dungeon ended up too long. ‘The question is now, how he with the sky-high expectations will deal, ” said Dekker yesterday.
Possible Evenepoel this week in one fell swoop, even though the answer to the question that Dekker formulated. The cycling world expected a double win, even the own entourage did not fail to have the enthusiasm to pokers, and succeeded the always sober Evenepoel for both exams at the youth with congratulations of the jury.
Results: 1. Remco EVENEPOEL the 126.8 km in 3u03’49” (41.389 km/h); 2. Marius Mayrhofer (Ger) 1’25”; 3. Alessandro Fancellu (Ita) 1’38”; 4. Alexandre Balmer (Sui); 5. Frederik Wandahl (S) 3’20”; 6. Gabriele Benedetti (Ita); 7. Alois Charrin (Fra); 8. Kevin Vermaerke (VSt); 9. Antonio Tiberi (Ita); 10. Sean Quinn (VSt) 3’25”; 55. Aaron Van Der Beken 17’58”; And 56. Henri Vandenabeele.
Eddy Merckx: ‘He is perhaps even better than I
‘Unbelievable!’ Even Eddy Merckx came yesterday in Innsbruck words too short for the performance of the phenomenon Remco Evenepoel. Attack, chase, the competition, keep up, and then the sovereign only to run off to go. Rarely picked up a junior on about everything overbluffende way to his second world title in three days. Where is this at? For this world cup was Evenepoel in the most optimistic circles all ‘the new Merckx’ was proclaimed. Exaggerated? No more, according to the master himself.
“Maybe he is even better than I,” says Merckx in Innsbruck. ‘That boy gives the impression of everything. If you see how he built, how he can time trial, how he uphill everyone outclassed… That is super.’
Or Merckx could do this at the age of eighteen? ‘On this track, I had maybe the can make a difference’, grins Merckx. ‘Don’t forget: I’m also a world champion when I was nineteen. But that boy something extraordinary, now.’
Many council Merckx him not even to give. “What I would still need to tell?’, what it sounds like. “Nothing. He can do it all already. When you see how well he can explain. That is already mature. If I him, something would say, then it is: stay Calm. Later he prof. But if someone out there can make it.” (wvo)
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