{"id":194658,"date":"2025-10-07T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194658\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:23:10","slug":"otherwise-he-will-be-unhappy-in-the-coming-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194658\/","title":{"rendered":"Otherwise, he will be unhappy in the coming years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Cycling Championships<\/a> were the same story as the World Cycling Championships a week earlier: Remco Evenepoel<\/a> dominated the time trial, but was no match for Tadej Pogacar<\/a> in the road race<\/a>. Jan Bakelants<\/a> hopes that his compatriot can be satisfied with a place behind the Slovenian, because it is unlikely to get any better than that. He believes the younger generation has a better chance.Pogacar was once again in a class of his own in France, even for Evenepoel and the Belgian team. \u201cRacing is simple when Tadej Pogacar is involved: there is very little tactics involved,\u201d said Bakelants in his analysis for Het Laatste Nieuws<\/a>. \u201cOnly the legs do the talking. The Belgians tried something; they made the race difficult, but you can’t call that a fruitful tactic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey attacked Pogacar early on, but that was a bit naive, to say the least. It seemed as if Serge Pauwels had learned little from the latest Tour, where Visma | Lease a Bike tried the same thing. If you make the race tough, especially on a difficult course, you mainly exhaust yourself, and in the end, Pogacar proves to be stronger. By making the race tough, you’re actually helping him.”<\/p>\n

Evenepoel will be frustrated with another silver medal, his compatriot knows. “And yet Remco should be satisfied with his result: everyone ended up where they deserved to be. The fact that Evenepoel himself is also minutes ahead of the rest proves how good he is \u2013 he can be proud. I just wonder if that’s the feeling that will stay with him. Knowing Remco, that won’t be easy, but he has to accept it.”<\/p>\n

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\"evenepoel-pogacar-seixas\"\/Only van der Poel can do something against Pogacar, says Bakelants<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Evenepoel thinks that way, he’ll be unhappy a lot in the coming years. If it happens to you once, twice, or three times, I understand that you can be frustrated. But if you keep running into the same rider, for two years now, you have to accept that he’s just better at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The current generation simply cannot compete with the world champion. \u201cThe only one who has managed to create a duel this season is van der Poel. And with the caveat that he only succeeded on his own turf: in the Flemish races and Roubaix. Or wait, I’ll correct myself: Milan-Sanremo<\/a> is actually more suited to Pogacar, but even there, Mathieu makes life difficult for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Isaac<\/p>\n

Can Isaac Del Toro be a threat to Pogacar in the future?<\/p>\n

Bakelants names top talents as rivals Pogacar: “All the puzzle pieces will have to come together”Bakelants hopes that Evenepoel can take a step forward at Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe. “But I’m also starting to look at the younger generation. What Paul Seixas<\/a> showed at the European Championships at the age of nineteen is super impressive. It’s too early to say whether he can ever reach Pogacar’s level – he’ll have to work hard to reach Evenepoel’s level first, after all, he finished 2’40” behind Remco.”In addition to Seixas, who took bronze in his own country among the big names, Isaac Del Toro<\/a> is also someone who could threaten Pogacar in the long term, according to the Belgian. \u201cHe, too, is an incredible talent, but he also has a lot of milestones to reach. All the puzzle pieces will have to come together; only then will we see exciting duels again in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Cycling Championships were the same story as the World Cycling Championships a week earlier: Remco Evenepoel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-194658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}