Sports director compared Remco Evenepoel to Lance Armstrong and the Internet said uh - Canadian Cycling Magazine

Klaas Lodewyck, the directeur sportif astatine Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl compared the newly-crowned satellite champion, Remco Evenepoel to Lance Armstrong. Speaking to Australian cycling mag Ride, said that the 2 riders person rather a spot successful common. “It whitethorn beryllium a incorrect comparison, but successful presumption of quality I bash spot similarities betwixt Remco and Lance.”

Both riders won the rainbow jersey astatine 22 years old, for example. But there’s much than that.

“Aside from everything that went incorrect with Armstrong successful the past, Lance was besides idiosyncratic who could ne'er triumph enough. When helium started somewhere, helium wanted to beryllium the best. Remco ever wants to triumph too,”Lodewyck said. “On the past Sunday greeting of the Vuelta a successful Madrid, helium already started talking to america astir the World Championships successful Wollongong. It’s ne'er enough. That besides shows that helium is ever driven to beryllium the champion and to triumph races.”

Lodewyck besides said their thrust is similar.

“Lance was a killer. If you kicked his shins, helium kicked backmost 10 times harder. Usually helium did this connected a bicycle and sometimes besides verbally. Remco besides has that slayer mentality.”

His sports manager did enactment 1 quality betwixt the two. He says that successful spite of a estimation for arrogance, Evenepoel is overmuch much easy-going and diplomatic with his teammates. This doesn’t precisely enactment up with the celebrated cockiness of Armstrong.

As you tin imagine, Internet peeps had immoderate beardown opinions.

“Being compared to a definite LA, doper extraordinaire is not a bully thing. Not. Good. At. All…” tweeted @MikeCassie.

“If I was him I’ve person astir apt chosen my words with a spot much care….” @VogonLaundromat
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Some defended the Quick Step unit member’s words. “It’s beauteous evident the examination is to the motorcycle and not to the beingness style,” CharissaGrace15 tweeted.