It didn't take long for the fireworks to start at
Paris-Nice 2024. Thanks in part to the attacks of
Remco Evenepoel, the GC riders came to the fore as early as the opening stage.
"The intention was to get bonus seconds, which we succeeded," Evenepoel told Het Nieuwsblad post-stage. "There was one, Matteo Jorgenson a little quicker: he started a little earlier. Plan A was to continue at the top but they were all domestiques of sprinters who were along and they did not want to participate. Which is their right."
In the battle for bonus seconds, Evenepoel, Jorgenson and Egan Bernal were in the fight. Notable by his absence however, was
Primoz Roglic. "If we have a plan, Roglic is usually stuck to my wheel. I didn't see him, that was why I kept going so hard," Evenepoel reflects of the situation. "I think he just wasn't sitting right at the front. That is always the case in your first race of the year: then you have to regain some confidence. We also rode so fast that not many men had an answer and we rode away with four or five. I don't know if Roglic didn't want to or couldn't follow. You should ask him that."
"We did what we wanted to do. Taken a few seconds, that's something. Not fallen, that's something. The team is there, so that is good for morale," he concludes. "This was probably the most dangerous stage of this Paris-Nice purely in terms of hectic pace and we survived it well. Everyone was immediately in their place, so the first test in France was a success."
My eyes are on Bernal..PR & RE etc..will squabble but EG, he's got his eyes on unseating Vingegard (in the future) I just hope Ineos realise that they need IT ALL with Visma equipe
Roglic is just playing mind games with you Remco ! He's done it before quite successfully as you fall for it ! So a few seconds here isn't a big deal.
Remco is an excitable boy- Roglic is a cunning strategist. My bet is on Primoz.
Daddy Bull and Son bull look at a field of cows… know that one?
Professor Evenepoel held court, I guess. What an arrogant little, er ...
Literally nothing arrogant of what he said, he said he was not sure if rogla couldn't follow or didn't want to follow??? This is all on you interpreting it that way
The arrogance is well wrapped up in his guess that Roglic may not have been able to follow his (Evenepoel's) attack, because, after all, that would be impossible. And, yes, it's all on me interpreting it that way.