Evenepoel at the Olympics in Tokyo.Įvenepoel had lined up in Tokyo as Belgium’s co-leader with Van Aert. It all started when the sport’s greatest-ever, Eddy Merckx, took aim at Evenepoel’s approach to the Olympic road race back in July. And Stuvyen’s comments are just the latest in a series of criticisms directed at Evenepoel via the Belgian media in recent months. In an interview with Het Nieuwsblad this week, Evenepoel’s Worlds teammate Jasper Stuyven was critical of how Evenepoel handled himself both in the race, and in the media afterwards.
And at the heart of the discussion lies 21-year-old wunderkind Remco Evenepoel, castigated for simultaneously doing too much at Worlds, and also not enough.
The team’s failure to medal has reverberated around the cycling-mad nation ever since. By many people’s reckoning, Wout van Aert was the rider to beat. The Belgians came into the elite men’s road race with multiple contenders and the weight of an expectant nation on their shoulders. It’s been a month now since the Road World Championships wrapped up, but in the host nation of Belgium, the fallout continues.
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