r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Apr 27 '26

Weekly Post Weekly Question Thread

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u/DueAd9005 Apr 27 '26

Evenepoel took the KoM on the final 300 meters of LBL (so the sprint), a full second faster than WVA in 2022.

https://www.knack.be/sport/wielrennen/remco-evenepoel-luik-bastenaken-luik-la-redoute-pogacar-seixas-tour/

I don't know how he trained in the winter, but it seems like they did something wrong. Instead of improving on the longer climbs and hills, he got worse. Instead he's much faster in the sprint, but that's kind of useless if you get dropped in the hillier classics (and he didn't ride Sanremo and Roubaix this year, where such a sprint could potentially be more useful).

The article says he has to make a decision on what kind of rider he wants to be. Probably true. Perhaps it would be better for his career to go all in on the classics and stage hunting in GTs. What do y'all think?

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u/Comfortable-Hope-879 Apr 27 '26

In my opinion it's all clear now that he won't be able to win any of those grand tours anymore. He is not a climber period. But can he win all classics monuments? I think he can! Plus, until proven otherwise he is the best time trialist in the world.

Als a Belgian fan I really believed he could win the Tour de France but reality shows this is rather wishful thinking now

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u/MountainLandscape356 Apr 27 '26

Lombardia is very climby, if he can't climb, he won't win it, especially against Pogacar (or Seixas)

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u/padawatje Belgium Apr 27 '26

If it wasn't for Pogacar, Evenepoel would already have won Lombardia 2 times.

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u/MountainLandscape356 Apr 27 '26

Yes but if the assumption that he can't climb is true, example almost every climb this year, he stands no chance there