Remco Evenepoel DROPS His Own Teammates in Time Trial | Vuelta a España 2022 Stage 1 

I was thinking the same

18 years at the team!!! absolutely deserved.

TJV been doing nice things lately!!! They are the team to be beaten!

That's probably why TJV is doing so good rn. Everyone shall not be jealous xD

When the stars take care of their teammates…

so, which cyclist are u supporting as a new fan of the sport ^^?

Well you’ve found an exceptionally good commentator so you’re lucky!

@@tommytommy7535 i like remco and WvA's style, also have a soft spot for a lot of the british riders because i am british, cav particularly

Problem is benefits the big rich teams

TTT's have a huge problem in that they introduce big time gaps between teams and these gaps are often insurmountable for any GC contenders in the teams that are behind and so the GC hopes of that team are over from just one stage. This was a short TTT and still resulted in gaps over over a minute for some teams like EF and 40+sec for Bora so their GC hopes are already severely damaged. In longer TTT's as have been used in the past (40-60km) the time gaps ended up being 4-5 minutes. So hypothetically if it had been a 40km TTT and Bora had ended up 4 min behind TJV then Jai Hindley might as well go home. Yes they are great to watch but IMO are not what a GT is all about.

I love TTTs as well and love them to be the opener of a GT. Dont make them too long else the differences will be too big, but its such a beautiful discipline.

@@epincion but that’s cycling. TTT is not just about being rich, sure, you can afford more specialists but there is so much to be gained with proper strategy, training and getting the details right. Also, the simple thing of being a unit rather than just a bunch of cyclists makes a big difference. While I understand the concern, cycling is a team sport and TTT is no different to having multiple mountain specialists in a mountain stage.

@@riquelmeone Disagree. The typical GT is a mix of flat/hilly sprint stages and mountain stages (used to be at 8-10 out of the 21 flat/hilly stages but increasingly nowadays only 4-5 'sprint stages'), so if you are a WT team that is aiming at winning the GC or even just getting a top 5 finish then you need to have team built on a core of climbers. The GC contender himself needs to be an excellent climber, a good sprinter and a good ITT rider. But If you have a TTT in a GT then it will be just one stage, and (especially if a longer distance ) it will result in a big spread of times between teams and the smaller less well funded teams who have with a potential top 5 even only a top 10 GC rider on their roster but who cannot afford the best riders, best equipment, best training camps and lots of wind tunnel use will find there GC rider is now several minutes behind. We saw this in action yesterday - where a number of teams with a GC contender ended up over 1 minute back from the top three and IMO will never claw that time back over the rest of the race.

No it was not the loser, on the last km didnt pull to drop the mates no the final (see the replay), nice guy :/

Fabian Cancellara once lead the whole TTT and he lost every teammate but 3.

@@ruiteixeira1594 Almeida fanboy still mad about Remco.

@@ruiteixeira1594 go watch football or fix your horrible economy.

@@apolloniusbeitsman5444 not Almeida that drops his mates, dont simp.

At all costs

Nah. We need more lunch time trials

*cries in EF*

I did not know that. Due to that commentary, I thought it was 4...

The Belgian commentator on RTBF always said it was 5

Bro every champ in every sport is juiced. Don't be so flakey and naive. Back who you want vs who society says you should. Inner peace awaits those who do.

@@durianriders REMCO BABY

@@durianriders i think his comment was for people with an IQ above 60

Agreed, although it does penalize good riders on bad teams. I prefer the perfunctory prologue ITT. The TTT does help explain to noobs why cycling is a team sport.

Because at the tour french riders use to lose 1-2 min in them all the time. There good to watch but it's not really fair to the poor teams going for GC

@@alexnewton7793 I have the impression, that The last 4-5 years IT is getting Better for French teams with their training metods An opening Up for Foreign riders. Poor teams Will never win GC anyway.

@@alexnewton7793 it doesnt need to be fair, it has never been fair, different teams have different advantages in different sittuations, different riders differ in capability. Its the beauty of it.

@@benjaminurzua8100 I do get where your coming from but if we look at the tour, the top 3 riders would more than likely of been the top 3 teams already. When we want podium battles we don't need riders like Bardet losing another minute in tt

Not his last GT though. He told Dutch tv last night he’ll continue for another year.

The pod on YT has time stamps for each stage! ❤️

Look at your map. Way more than 20 km

@@casakaiser certainly, it's also 40km north. But only 20km west!

@@casakaiser From me (Ijburg) to the west part of the course, the wet part, is pretty much exactly 20km. maybe 23 if you're going to be one of 'those' people

Second at worst

I think he's gonna crack sometime, hope I'm wrong

@@tugabooga in the Giro Evenepoel had a smalller Endurance base. This Year he has all ready 25.000 km in training and races. And his W/kg this Year is extreme High. So I don't see any reason why he can't substain a High level for 3 weeks.

@@ivodepivo21 My opinion is not based on the Giro, but on Tirreno and Suisse this year. He cracked on both and this Vuelta will be very demanding

@@tugabooga At Tirreno he was heavier and it was in cold conditions. At Suisse apparently there was a heat management mistake with him riding in an aero helmet without ventilation and likely also not enough ice. If you get taken out by the heat, you'll need some days to recover from that. It doesn't make sense for him to break like that in Suisse, after only 4 days on a profile that should suite him at least decently. The explanation given by the team here makes sense in that aspect. Since then he has been training more in the heat and QST have improved their heat management for the remainder of the season. Since he started preparing for the Vuelta (after the ardenne classics) he did 2 superb climbing performances and this Suisse debacle, where he imo wasn't even in the best shape at the very start either.

Thé UCI rules leave it open for race-specific regulations. The Vuelta 2022 technical regs says 5th rider

@@omarbdrums I thought that as well but when I heard the comentators it threw me off. Ty for the answer

Yep... Cant really control the weather

Hey I'm sorry, the Netherlands is just not built like that

INEOS is TJV's offshore dev team

Ineos is rebuilding from it's excellent but now older team and have a lot of new younger talented signings many in this team at the Vuelta and some joining next year (eg Thymen Arensman from DSM who has the potential to be Ineos's Sepp Kuss) so IMO the future looks good. TJV took three seasons to get to where they are now. All teams go through such cycles.

@@epincion Do you think they need to keep some of the older riders for the experience?

Arensman is diffenately not a new Kuss. Arensman is a complete rider, not an pure mountaingoat like Kuss. Jumbo also really wanted Arensman, but he went to Ineos. I belive Ineos showed interest before Jumbo did, but its not known yet why he chose for Ineos. Arensman is a very smart guy. Finished his study. Intentionally didnt go 100% his first 2 years at Dsm. In agreement with the team they decided that for a long career its not good for someone at 20/21 years to put all your food on a scale and be 100% focused on cycling. This year they started with his personalised plate and upped professionalism and his progress has been huge. I think he has 1 more big step to make. Ps Ineos is still an absolute top team

Way past his peak. Never been the same since Dauphine crash in 2019

10 years ago maybe

@@frorton_9170 His peak was 2017-18 so awhile ago but not that far

No, the first 5 get the time of the fifth rider. The rest gets their own finish time so if your gc rider drops he will lose time

Only if you finish in the same group. If you were dropped by your team and you finish after the 5th man, you will lose time

Boas tuga, se o remco não estourar até ao fim da volta vou ficar surpreendido

Relevant races? You've seen LBL or classica san sebastian?

@@briangoossens1519 that is exactly what i mean, 1 day races... Vuelta has 3 weeks and some of those mountain stages are just brutal this year. i see Remco goin for 3-4 stage wins, but no chance in hell for GC...

@@filipt.585 we will have to see as he's never done a grand tour with a decent preparation. He's definitely made some mistakes in the Tirreno and Tour of Suisse which gives the perception he can't handle 3 weeks or steep climbs, but then he was excellent in Basque country. Personally I think he is more of TT/one day specialist but he's still young and I've seen worse climbers than him win grand tours! I think the main thing is he needs to mature and spare his energy if he wants to be a GC winner.

"No one" thought Pogacar could beat Roglic in TDF2020 because it was his first TDF

When you're in a TT position with a TT helmet your field of vision and hearing is significantly reduced. And you definitely will have no idea if a teammate loses your wheel. Plus everyone is at their limit, so with the finish being somewhat technical and Remco being so aero that he provides almost zero draft it's really no surprise he dropped his teammates at the end. In other words, not his fault.

I disagree - IMO the reason he went to the front near the end and pulled hard was that he was trying to speed up his team as he knew that they were very close to the time of Ineos. In the end QS was just 1 sec behind. Had QS beaten Ineos Remco would have been in the Maillot Blanc and not Hayter. Unfortunately his small size and position on the bike is so good that he does not draft the rider behind and the team lost his wheel. It was a very reasonable action on his side.

Matthew Lee. Remco is not the right person for Jumbo Visma. It has to do with mentality. Men like Wout van Aert but also others in Team Jumbo Visma are willing to work for each other. What Jumbo Visma did with Robert Geesink would never happen in Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl. In Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl they would kill each other in the last kilometer to get the red jersey.🤣🤣🤣

gracias

More aesthetically pleasing ;)

Quintana dropped out before the start and they didn't replace him

@@MDP1702 what I wanted to see Quintana race. I love his face idk why lol

They're getting some rest after the Tour de France

Vingegaard was never scheduled for the Vuelta this year and Pogacar clearly needed the rest after the TdF (and Jonas most likely also).

@@MDP1702 primoz going for 3 crown

@@Slow.Smooth You mean 4, right?

It looks like Jai is out of the running for the victory after the first stage.

@@starkparker16 You do know 40 seconds isn't going to decide a 85 hour race, right?

@@andrasszabo1570 it happens all the time. Jai only won the Giro by 78 seconds.

Only won one race? He won the Giro, he made it to the podium in ALL 3 grand tours, he won gold at the olympics, and some smaller stage races like Tour de Suisse. Im a fan of Hindley, but his palmares is way less impressive than Carapaz's. And Remco will get destroyed in the 3rd week.

Don’t forget Chris Horner won a grand tour at 42 drug free...

@@benjibodhranboy i know that is completely Awsome!! As a old man myself i loved watching him kick the young guys butts!!! Chris is one of my all time favorite riders next to Greg!!! 2 guys that did it drug free!!! I dought in my book no one at that age will ever win a Grand tour again at that age!! And i have been watching racing since 84!!

Nice prediction, genius!