Second part of the report of the live with Philippe Gilbert on Thursday evening.

Philippe Gilbert knows Evenepoel very well and spoke about his future in the classics: " In my opinion, Remco will do the cobbled classics , certainly the Tour of Flanders, while I don't know about the Roubaix. He hasn't managed to race them yet, but in 2021 he already easily won the Brussels Classic , a small race in the north".

Prompted by the Mullah, Gilbert then spoke about Van Aert : "Sometimes Wout thinks more about putting on a show and going on the breakaway rather than the victory itself; I think he is now very affected by the fall at the Vuelta, it happened to me too with a blow to my knee", then he continued "I think Van Aert will now do well at the Giro and will easily win 2-3 stages ".

Then there was talk of another Belgian in difficulty, namely Arnaud De Lie : "I can't explain what happened to him, despite earning a generous salary he showed up at the races overweight and always dropped out; nowadays we need a different mentality and much more training".

Gilbert was then asked for his opinion on Patrick Lefevere , jokingly called the 'last boss of the cycling mafia': "He had eyes everywhere, he followed all the races, even those running at the same time, like Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice. One of his flaws was his management of riders at the end of their careers: it happened with Boonen, with Alaphilippe and also with me, so that in the end I went to Lotto, even though I was also willing to be a domestique".

Gilbert concluded by talking about the importance of youth management: "Uijtdebroeks is an example of a guy who trained too much at a young age. Guys need to improve year after year, they shouldn't be at the peak of their career at 19 or 20."