Remco Evenepoel is very similar in character to Lance Armstrong, says Quick-Step director “Lance was a killer. If you kicked his shin, he kicked back ten times harder... Remco also has that killer mentality,” says DS Klaas Lodewyck cycling
As Belgium’s greatest stage race hope to emerge in the last half-century, Remco Evenepoel is certainly used to being compared to the most successful Tour de France riders of all time.
However, comparisons to another retired pro synonymous with cycling’s biggest race have so far eluded the modern peloton’s fastest rising star. “Apart from everything that went wrong with Armstrong in the past, Lance was also someone who could never win enough,” the 34-year-old said. “If he was at the start somewhere, he wanted to be the best. Remco has always wanted to win like that too.
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