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<p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/9913C2365D4C14FA13" class="txc-image" width="1001" style="clear: none; float: none;" border="0" vspace="1" hspace="1" data-filename="072-_MG_3234.jpg" exif="{}" actualwidth="1001" id="A_9913C2365D4C14FA13CACF"/></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>벨기에의 싸이클 신동, 렘코 에베노포엘(Remco Evenepoel)에 대해</p><p>아래 뚜르 리뷰 등에서 언급한 적이 있습니다.</p><p>지난 3일 가을 클래식을 여는 중요한 대회 </p><p>클래시카 산 세바스티안....에서 에베네포엘이 우승을 합니다.</p><p><br></p><p>현재 나이 19세...</p><p>지난해 쥬니어 로드 및 TT 월드챔피언이지요..</p><p><br></p><p>23세이하 그룹을 건너뛰고..</p><p>성인무대 데뷔 첫 대회인데..바로 우승..그것도 산 세바스티안에서..</p><p>지난달 Hammer Limburg에서...자신의 실력이 성인무대에서도 통할 수 있음을 이미 보여 주었더랬습니다.</p><p><br></p><p>그럼에도 불구하고..</p><p>현 프로싸이클링의 스타들이...특히 클라이밍 및 펀쳐...대부분 집결하는</p><p>Monumets급 대회에서 에베네포엘이 우승할 거라 생각한 이는 거의 없었습니다.</p><p>지난해 이대회 챔프는 DQS팀선배 줄리앙 알라필립이었고..</p><p>마이클 키와츠코스키, 알레한드로 발베르데, 바우케 몰레마, 아담 예이츠, 루이스 레온 산체스, 필립 질베...토니 갤로팡 등등</p><p>이런 선수들이 우승하는...</p><p>역대 우승자의 면면을 보면 이 대회가 어떤 레벨인지 짐작할 수 있을 것입니다.</p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/997C144D5D49839205" class="txc-image" width="900" style="clear: none; float: none;" border="0" vspace="1" hspace="1" data-filename="profile.jpg" exif="{}" actualwidth="900" id="A_997C144D5D49839205162B"/></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>220km 거리에...카테고리 클라이밍이 무려 8개....그중 2개는 1등급</p><p>19세라면.. 펠로톤의 끄트머리에서 완주에도 쉽지 않은 대회인데..</p><p><br></p><p>마지막 언덕에서...finish가 9km나 남았고..</p><p>35초뒤에 올림픽챔피언, 월드챔피언 등 엄청난 선수들로 구성된 펠로톤이 추격하고 있는데..</p><p><br></p><p>2018 Tour of California 산악왕.. 언덕 좀 탄다는 Trek팀의 톰 스쿠인스를 따돌리고..</p><p>독주로 끝까지 시간차를 유지하며 들어옵니다.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>뚜르 마치고 얼마 지나지 않아서...많은 선수들이 피로한 상태라지만..</p><p>그럼에도 Amazing한 승리입니다.</p><p>전설중에 전설 에디 먹스가 자신을 넘을 수 있겠다고 할 정도이니..ㅎㅎ</p><p><br></p><p>자덕이라면..ㅎ</p><p>아래 동영상을 처음부터 끝까지 보실 가치가 있습니다.</p><p>30km이전 펠로톤에서 떨어졌던 에베네포엘이...</p><p>가속하는 펠로톤을 추격하고..</p><p>BA에 나가 갭을 벌리고..</p><p>마지막 언덕에서 잡히지 않고...독주로 마감...</p><p>종반에는 펠로톤의 베테랑들도 몇킬로만 앞에서 끌어도 나가떨어지는 곳인데...후덜덜합니다.</p><p><br></p><p>
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</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/995EC2375D4C14280E" class="txc-image" width="1001" style="clear: none; float: none;" border="0" vspace="1" hspace="1" data-filename="070-_AF_7142.jpg" exif="{}" actualwidth="1001" id="A_995EC2375D4C14280EDED6"/></p><p>비정상적인 신체비(상체 vs 하체)의 DQS 선수들....그중에서도 작은데...허벅지는 제일 두꺼운 에베네포엘</p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/99CC4A375D4C14290B" class="txc-image" width="1001" style="clear: none; float: none;" border="0" vspace="1" hspace="1" data-filename="208-_AF_7790.jpg" exif="{}" actualwidth="1001" id="A_99CC4A375D4C14290B9597"/></p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/99F601375D4C142940" class="txc-image" width="1001" style="clear: none; float: none;" border="0" vspace="1" hspace="1" data-filename="284-K18_6088.jpg" exif="{}" actualwidth="1001" id="A_99F601375D4C14294051DF"/></p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/99D5D5375D4C142938" class="txc-image" width="1001" style="clear: none; float: none;" border="0" vspace="1" hspace="1" data-filename="320-CORVOS_00031326-024.jpg" exif="{}" actualwidth="1001" id="A_99D5D5375D4C142938F2D6"/></p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cfile/cafe/997975375D4C142A07" class="txc-image" width="1001" style="clear: none; float: none;" border="0" vspace="1" hspace="1" data-filename="330-CORVOS_00031326-050.jpg" exif="{}" actualwidth="1001" id="A_997975375D4C142A07E0F6"/></p><p>영 스타일 안나오는 2위싸움 스프린트 ㅜ</p><p>명색이 올림픽챔인데...소년한테 1등주고....ㅋ<br></p><h1 class="o-headline" style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: aglet-slab, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 45px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Merckx suggests Evenepoel could ‘even be better than me’</h1><div class="o-dek" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(96, 98, 110); text-transform: none; line-height: 28px; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; font-family: acumin-pro-condensed, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The accolades continue to pour in for 19-year-old Evenepoel, who became the youngest rider in the modern era to win a major one-day classic Saturday.</div><div class="c-article__share u-space--and-half--top u-space--and-half--bottom" style='margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; 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padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="c-vote" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="c-vote__up o-icon u-icon--m u-padding--zero u-spacing--zero" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:0.25s ease-in-out; width: 30px; height: 30px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="c-vote__label u-font--xs" style="margin: -9px 0px -4px -1px; padding: 0px; font-family: acumin-pro-condensed, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="c-vote__down o-icon u-icon--m u-padding--zero u-spacing--zero" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition:0.25s ease-in-out; width: 30px; height: 30px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box; transform: rotate(180deg);"></div></div></div></div><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Cycling’s king<span> </span><a style="transition:0.25s ease-in-out; color: rgb(237, 28, 36); text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;" href="https://www.velonews.com/tag/eddy-merckx" automate_uuid="6b9169be-5cf9-4be5-abf1-00919ca9264f">Eddy Merckx</a><span> </span>is lavishing praise on 19-year-old<span> </span><a style="transition:0.25s ease-in-out; color: rgb(237, 28, 36); text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;" href="https://www.velonews.com/2019/08/race-report/19-year-old-remco-evenepoel-wins-at-clasica-san-sebastian_498397" automate_uuid="ba8209ab-5e09-46c1-a78d-3c0b25e396ae">Remco Evenepoel</a><span> </span>(Deceuninck-Quick Step) for becoming the youngest classics winner in the modern era, saying “maybe he could even be better than me.”</p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Evenepoel, born January 25, 2000,<span> </span><a style="transition:0.25s ease-in-out; color: rgb(237, 28, 36); text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;" href="https://www.velonews.com/2019/08/race-report/19-year-old-remco-evenepoel-wins-at-clasica-san-sebastian_498397Saturday with a solo attack with 8.7km to go after dropping another attacking rider. In doing so, he set a record that even Belgian legend Merckx lacked in his glorious palmar&#232;s. The man considered the greatest cyclist of all time won his first classic, the 1966 Milano-Sanremo, at “only” 20 years old." automate_uuid="17be12b2-9d82-4ea0-89fc-50d8fc1423fe">won the Clásica San Sebastián</a></p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><u>“For a 19-year-old to win such a competition … what he did is exceptional,” Merckx told VTM. “This is exceptional. We knew that Remco has a large engine. The fact that he is already showing it proves that he is mature early. He is ready for the big job. Can he follow in my footsteps? Maybe he will even get better. Remco has all the qualities to make it happen.”</u></p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Merckx,<span> </span><a style="transition:0.25s ease-in-out; color: rgb(237, 28, 36); text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;" href="https://www.velonews.com/2018/01/news/2019-tour-honor-merckx-brussels-start_454833, would go on to win Milano-Sanremo seven times. He collected wins in all five monuments, and" automate_uuid="4fcf4719-23a1-482c-a65e-c655987e4207">now 74</a><span> </span><a style="transition:0.25s ease-in-out; color: rgb(237, 28, 36); text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;" href="https://www.velonews.com/2019/07/news/50-years-on-merckxs-legendary-status-gets-fresh-recognition_496410. He also won every grand tour, capturing the Tour de France five times while setting the all-time race record of 34 stage wins, which still stands today." automate_uuid="3e40f051-c371-432e-b6d4-783629910324">nearly every classic</a></p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>While flattered, Evenepoel deflected the high praise, saying, “Eddy Merckx says that I might be better than him? Nice words, but it would be very, very difficult to match his palmarès.”</p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>The Flemish cyclist from Schepdaal does not wear the rainbow stripes, but he won them as a junior in both the world championship time trial and road race in 2018. Evenepoel closed the season with 23 wins, dominating the junior racing calendar last year. He won all four stage races he entered. Such was his success that he skipped past the under-23 ranks, signing with Belgium’s top pro team, going from juniors to the WorldTour.</p><figure style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; overflow: hidden; font-family: aglet-slab, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline-block; white-space: normal; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-498443 lazyloaded " style="border: currentColor; transition:opacity 0.3s; border-image: none; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1;" alt="" src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=https%3A%2F%2Fs27394.pcdn.co%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F08%2FGettyImages-1165904704-720x481.jpg.webp" data-src="https://s27394.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GettyImages-1165904704-720x481.jpg.webp" srcset="https://s27394.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GettyImages-1165904704-720x481.jpg.webp 720w, https://s27394.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GettyImages-1165904704.jpg.webp 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px"><figcaption class="o-figure__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Photo by Amaia Zabalo/Getty Images</figcaption></figure><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>To win the Clásica San Sebastián, Evenepoel followed an attack from Toms Skujins (Trek-Segafredo), and then dropped him on the final climb. Evenepoel then fended off a chase group that included Greg Van Avermaet (CCC Team), Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team), and Michael Woods (EF Education First). The WorldTour one-day race win comes after a recent run that included wins of the Baloise Belgium Tour overall and a stage in the Adriatica Ionica.</p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>The<span> </span><a style="transition:0.25s ease-in-out; color: rgb(237, 28, 36); text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;" href="https://www.velonews.com/2019/06/news/at-19-remco-evenpoel-is-living-up-to-the-hypeat-19-remco-evenepoel-is-living-up-to-the-hype_495237" automate_uuid="e8a2ecab-ca2b-4764-a69a-cad2d2b36e05">latest race win is a next step</a><span> </span>in what Evenepoel and Merckx expect to be a long career.</p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>“It makes you dream when young riders [like 22-year-old Egan Bernal (Ineos)] step up and immediately win the Tour de France. It is an incentive to go twice as fast and to be on the highest step like him,” Evenepoel told<span> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Het Nieuwsblad</em>. “But the plan is that I won’t ride the Tour before 2023. Before, I’ll do the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España, but it can always gain momentum. I have more than three years to work for that, then my baby fat will be gone. Only then will we really be able to see how strong I can become.”</p><p style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.65; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'>Evenepoel’s will next race the European championships next weekend, then the Tour of Germany, perhaps the one-day Canadian races, and then the world championships in Yorkshire.</p><div id="mc_embed_signup" style='margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 524px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: aglet-slab, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; 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