For forty years, the label has ruined careers and shattered a few lives, following a relentless cycle: each promising new Belgian champion was snatched from the basket, praised, blessed and then thrown to the ground at the first sign of weakness, by a press and an audience. cycling enthusiasts. Until Remco Evenepoel, 22, on Sunday became the first Belgian rider since 1978 to win a three-week event, the Tour of Spain. And above all the first to survive, at least so far, the label of “new Merckx”.
Vuelta winner Remco Evenepoel thwarts the curse of the “new Merckx”
