Champions born in the wrong era, because they find themselves having to deal with a champion colleague/rival who is too stronger, too out of category, too everything. Think Remco Evenepoel. And think of what he could have won if he hadn’t crossed – alas – Tadej Pogacar on his path. Champions accompanied by distracted stars, since it would have been enough to be born ten years later or ten years earlier and then they would have taken everything. Instead they have to settle. It’s certainly something, who knows if it’s enough.
