S9 Ep50: Kilometre 0 – Remco, the reboot
The Cycling Podcast
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What can we expect from Evenepoel, the 21-year-old Belgian phenomenon? Nobody seems to know, not even his Deceuninck-Quick-Step teammate Pieter Serry. We hear from Serry, from Jan-Pieter De Vlieger of Het Nieuwsblad and Renaat Schotte of Sporza.
We also ask whether the top riders need racing to prepare for their major targets, speaking to Joe Dombrowski, Larry Warbasse, Pavel Sivakov, Team Bike Exchange sports director Matt White and Egan Bernal's coach, Xabier Artetxe.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometer Zero by the cycling podcast powered by Super Sapiens, |
| 0:21.2 | Energy Management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:27.8 | In the 104th Jiro Dittaya got underway in Churren on Saturday, there was a surprise |
| 0:32.8 | in the opening time trial. |
| 0:35.1 | It was a course that suited big powerful riders, yet among them in 7th place was Remco |
| 0:41.3 | Evnepul, all 60 kg of him. |
| 0:44.7 | Maybe we shouldn't have been surprised, but Evnepul is still only 21, this is his first |
| 0:49.9 | grand tour and it's also his first race in 9 months, since he suffered a terrible crash |
| 0:55.4 | at Ilombardia in August last year, falling over a bridge and into a ravine. |
| 1:00.4 | This is the grainy helicopter shop, I think we've seen another this shop really, but he |
| 1:07.9 | dropped behind there of the six riders ahead of us and I wonder if he'd had a puncture |
| 1:15.0 | or if they'd been some kind of mechanical, but we do know that he was conscious when the |
| 1:20.4 | medical staff reached him. |
| 1:24.5 | Nobody knows what to expect from Evnepul here, but the early signs for him have been encouraging. |
| 1:30.4 | As Daniel said in our opening episode, a short time trial might not mean much in the context |
| 1:35.0 | of a three week race, but it can be a good indicator of form, in which case Evnepul looks |
| 1:40.8 | to be in great form. |
| 1:43.2 | But his performance in Churren even surprises the current quick step teammate Peter Ceri. |
| 1:48.9 | He was a beginner, yes, because it was not really his parkour for his weight, it was |
| 1:55.2 | 60.5 kg or something, and it was made for guys like Ghana above 80 kg, it was really |
| 2:02.7 | powerful time trial, so he surprised me, yes? |
| 2:07.6 | I mean, I guess we shouldn't be surprised by Remco, you know, he's, as we've seen in |
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