Belgium is electrified by a 19-Year-old: Remco Evenepoel get at the Cycling world Championships to Yorkshire time trial-silver – the next strike of the Belgian super-talent, that was two years ago, still a footballer.
Travel to silver At the world Cup in England must give Evenepoel only Rohan Dennis beat
The journey began with a moment of shock: Remco Evenepoel rolled off the start ramp, accelerated and stopped suddenly to occur. With the right Hand, he nestelte to its Aero-sock, she moved a bit to the top. Then he continued his journey. What has always bothered him at the headquarters of the thin piece of Lycra cloth, it stopped him not for a long time.
Because the 19-year-old Belgian stormed formally over the 54-kilometre-long Parcours of the time trial world championship. Already at the first Intermediate timing Evenepoel was on the second place, clearly ahead of seasoned professionals like Vuelta-winner Primoz Rogic or the four-times world champion Tony Martin. And the Impressive thing was: Evenepoel kept his pace was towards the end compared to the competition even faster. With a veritable Sprint, he raced to the finish line in Harrogate, and continued with a significant margin of 46.07 seconds ahead of second-placed Filippo Ganna from Italy to the top of the world championship race.
His facial features are still that of a boy, but he drives like an old hand – Remco Evenepoel excited
With a quick Wave in the direction of the audience Evenepoel shortly afterwards took place on the hot seat of Leading the target. A short Handshake with the competitors, a Smile that was Of nervousness, no trace, his body language is already a champion. Only a driver should be even faster: Rohan Dennis. The Australian, who became estranged during the Tour de France with his Team and under mysterious circumstances exit from the race, was in the world championship time trial in a class and won with 1:09 minutes ahead of Evenepoel his second time-trial gold in a row after his Triumph in 2018 in Innsbruck.
Him to underestimate the power of is mostly a error
But also the runner-up may feel on this day as a winner: never before has a 19-drove-Year-old so heavily in a world Cup time. And, once again, punished Evenepoel those lies, the thought that he was not yet Mature enough. In the case of his victory in the European championship time trial, he was taken aback, but this race was 22 km long. The demanding world Cup track by the British Region of Yorkshire was then still too long for the young man in the sky of Cycling, orakelten in the run-up to some of the experts. Similar they had said about him, as he moved on to his title of world champion in the juniors a year ago, without going through the U23 class in the world tour before he there are already nine season wins. And also prior to its first participation in a classic in San Sebastian, the most thought-out, Evenepoel would start to learn. He won as a superior soloist.
A classic victory, with a 19 years – this has never happened before in Cycling. Evenepoel wins in San Sebastian
How is that possible in a Sport where a Lot of things about maturity, experience and, above all, for years, trained Rennhärte running? In many of the puzzles currently in the world of Cycling that is from experience with high-Flyers quickly suspicious. In Belgium you can hear, no doubt, on the contrary: From the Cycling-mad Nation, a fan club accompanied long the Newcomer to international racing, Evenepoel occurs in television, and is compared in the media with no less a figure than Eddy Merckx. The ultimate accolade in Belgium, which celebrated the now 74-Year-old Merckx recently, at the Start of the Tour de France in Brussels with chants. Merckx himself says to Compare: “Whether Evenepoel is my successor? He is perhaps even better than I do. Remco has all the quality to make it.” In fact, Evenepoels career start was similar to the Merckx, the world Premiere of the 19-Year-old has compared even the nose in front. Because Merckx has not been) in his first world Cup race for the professionals, 1966 “only” the Twelfth in the road race (a time trial of it at the time.
From left-back to professional cyclist
Remco Evenepoel (R) in the Jersey of the Belgian U15 national team: He could have been a professional football player to be
Even more amazing is the story of Remco Evenepoel, if you will, looking at his sports gear. In 2000, in a small suburb of Brussels born, he started in as a five-year-old with the football games. He played for RSC Anderlecht, later for the PSV Eindhoven, mostly as a left defender. Quickly, he pushed in all the youth teams, despite his relatively small body size, and even made it to captain of the Belgian under-17 national team. In football you recognized his exceptional values: “As he went at the age of eleven years, for a number of years at PSV, told me his father that he had a huge VO2 max (the maximum oxygen intake ability of the body under load, Anm. d. Red.), the young coordinator of the RSC, said Anderlecht, Jean children’s, the Belgian sports channel “Sporza”. Above all, his stamina would have awarded Evenepoel as a footballer. But at some point, the Talent had not gone to the development Team fast enough and Evenpoel have decided to take the path of his father, Patrick Evenepoel pursue: to be a professional cyclist.
His entry was a bit like a comet: He won 34 of his first 44 races. At the Junior world Championships in Innsbruck, he drove his opponents in spite of a fall in the ground. And at the time of his triumphal ride of its self-consciousness flashed: just before the goal he had as a soloist in the lead of the race, the time, to be to the chin and play with the imaginary of goat beard – a cheers, like him, soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo showed. The message: I am the “Goat”, the Greatest of all time. Pretty perky for a young athlete told the cheering later with a bet with a friend.
To the Greatest cyclists of all time, so for the Range of Eddy Merckx, there is still a long way. However, Remco Evenepoel want him to go on his own way. “I don’t like it to be as the new Merckx referred to,” says the 19-Year-old. “Everything is different nowadays, and no driver is another. I’m not the new Merckx, I’m the new Evenepoel.” If that’s not an announcement.
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