When I grow up I would like to be like the belgians. There is no country in the world where cycling arouses so many passions. So many, to the point that it is enough to do the route or part of it of a stage of the Vuelta to feel a certain aroma of Tour with the motorhomes with Belgian license plates, Flemish of course, that are traveling the Spanish roads following Remco Evenepoel. They display the Lion of Flanders, plant the Belgian flag and spend the day in the gutter waiting for the son they all wish they had, the haughty Remco, to walk past them to feel proud of a symbol of the nation. Are 20 secondsAt most, but it’s worth it.
Cycling in Belgium is a religion. There is no greater debate than talking about this sport and discussing, with a beer in hand, of course, whether it is better evenepoel either Wout van Aert. And when the ‘evenepoilistas’ believe that they are winning the debate, there is someone who remembers the reality immediately: Eddy Merckx he has Van Aert as his adoptive son (or grandson) and don’t talk to him about Evenepoel because you’ll still get a smack.
It is then when doubts are sown because the word of MerckxIn cycling terms, it has a certain divine character and no one dares to contradict the greatest idol of the local sport for centuries that have passed. And on that even the Walloons agree.
The followers have multiplied
The Belgians are in the Vuelta following evenepoelThey already did it last year, but this year they have multiplied, as have the special envoys, obviously Flemish (the Walloons have stayed at home) who write about the broker and are only aware of what he does, says or complains in the race. evenepoel exceeds Van Aert in the fact that he contests the grand tours to win them and everyone is already dreaming of the debut of the Tour scheduled for 2024 to experience an exciting duel with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. what i doto Remco in this Tour he can partly determine his role in the French round with the other two phenomena of world cycling. For now, he has been touched on the arrival in the mountains of Teruel, but victorious in the mountainous appetizer surpassed in Andorra.
It is not easy to follow the Vuelta
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The truth is that only good things can be written about Van Aert. He is capable of being at the highest level all year long and fighting to win with at least three different types of bikes: cyclocross, road and gravel. However, this 2023, he has fallen to his eternal rival, Mathieu van der Poelthe Dutch idol, but he is always there and on top of that he can be seen on the Tour, although he will never want to compete in the general classification, because it is not fun for him, because he would get bored and it would also deprive those who love this sport of seeing him in action the rest of the day. year, always ready to succeed, even though many times he falls defeated.
And, be careful, following a race like the Vuelta, regardless of the organization, as the Belgian adventurers do, requires a lot of preparation time, because it is not easy to hit the roads on which the test will pass. But they never fail, there they are always enjoying their vacations and dreaming that evenepoel I came back to Madrid dressed in red on a still distant 17th of this newly launched month of September.