The numbers of the Evenepoel phenomenon

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26
Sep

The new world champion has already broken records and reached champions

Having finished the adjectives to describe his victories, the time has come to give the numbers.

Yes, the ones that best represent what Remco Evenepoel has done in his career so far and that make us think of even more incredible prospects for the future: breaking records that seemed unapproachable and conquering races on any terrain.

Let's start with victories as a professional: 37 . The young Belgian achieved 11 stage wins, 7 classics and one-day races, 9 time trials and 10 small or large laps. There are only 14 in 2022. And he turned 22 on January 25th.

His first success as a professor at 19 , a stage in the Tour of Belgium. A month later he overwhelms all his opponents arriving only in San Sebastian. It is his specialty, like three years later, always in the Basque Country.   

It is precisely in 2022 that all his strength explodes: he makes Liège his own attacking 30 km from the finish and is the first to obtain the Vuelta-Mondiale duo in the same season. The talent of Quick Step is the fourth to have won a classic monument, a grand tour and the World Championship in the same year: before him only Alfredo Binda, Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault have succeeded.

He is the seventh youngest winner of a World Championship   and the gap given to the second in the world championship won in Australia (2'21 ") is the eighth widest margin ever, but by far the widest in the last 50 years (the last was Adorni in 1968).

Then there are the comparisons: the inevitable one with the 'cannibal' Eddy Merckx who won a monument, a grand tour and a world championship at 22 years and 360 days. Remco Evenepoel got there at 22 years and 243 days.

We are talking about a runner who, in 2020, risked his life in a dramatic accident in Lombardy and who, before riding a bike, played football. About a boy who arrived on the saddle tip who has upset the entire world of cycling by silencing the critics who don't like him because he wins too much or for a character and behavior considered angular (but only seen in front of the TV).

Not bad for a boy of 2000 who shows a strong personality and gives great emotions as only champions can do.

The fantamanagers who fielded it during the last season enjoyed it and we can't wait to enjoy it in the world championship jersey also in 2023 . With the dream of seeing him in the race that all Italians love: the Giro.

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