"If they get tired and retire soon, so much the better" - Iván Romeo on Pogacar and Evenepoel
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Iván Romeo is one of the most promising riders at Movistar Team. The rider from Valladolid has established himself as one of the great promises of Spanish cycling with an extraordinary 2025 in which he has consolidated his position by winning a stage in Dauphiné, winning the Spanish Championship and signing notable performances in the Tour de France. One particular comment on Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel has caught the attention of many.
In an interview granted during the Desayunos de la Prensa Deportiva de Valladolid and reported by the EFE agency, the winner of the 2024 under-23 time trial World Championships spoke among other things about the current dominance of riders like Tadej Pogacar or Remco Evenepoel, joking about their superiority: "Evenepoel and Pogacar are at another level. If they get tired and retire soon, so much the better," he joked.
He has a very clear vision of cycling in 2025 that has to do with his sporting objectives: "Sport is a business, in which we work so that the sponsor has media repercussions and that is why it is better to win two or three stages in a race than to finish seventh in the Tour de France".
He is clear that cyclists like Pogacar are a blessing for the sport that goes far beyond their sporting results because of the way they behave away from the bike, which ultimately benefits cycling, unlike what's happened in the past: "Because it is also important for any sport to have figures, references that transcend and put the focus on it, especially when they are good cyclists and good people".
Romeo at the Tour de France presentation. @Sirotti
Ivan Romeo's 2026
On the year 2026 that he has planned with Movistar Team, he commented: "A plan very similar to that of 2025. To be at 100 percent in three races, instead of 80 percent the whole season, because the only way to achieve things is to give everything". Amongst these might be the Tour de France, which he said to have consumed about 6500-7000 calories per day this summer.
At just 23 years of age, the season that has just ended has been the one of his consolidation with his victories in the Spanish national Championship, the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Criterium du Dauphiné.
A fall prevented him from winning at the Tour de France and he finished the year just outside the top 10 in the time trial at the World Championships in Rwanda. On his ambition for the future, he makes it clear that words are useless: "I'm not going to set limits for myself because the road sets them for you".
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leedorney02-11-2026 - Watch the interview on youtube. I don't speak French. I do speak English and Spanish and you can hear it in his voice. Years ago LeMond had real personal problems I imagine in no small part because of Armstrong. then Armstrong goes round "full blast" re: LeMond having drinking and drug problems. The same way Andreu was expelled from mainstream cycling so was LeMond. On the positive side the clips of the ride and chatting with old teammates and was good. To seemed like a fun day and experience and good reason brush up his French.atom02-11-2026
- and another no-news article around the ‚2 tokyo jogging rounds‘ headline, this time spiced with some days old ‚news‘ that the LA and japan vacation trips come during or after the tdf route release. i am getting more and more annoyed by this time-stealing no-news crap. but who am i to complain? nobody forces me to come back for more ‚news‘ day after day …Ketterechts02-11-2026
- It would likely be a very steep section of 4.1 km, not changing the average gradient considerably, with the climb remaining 10.1 km at 11.8%. It would reach 20% on the gravel. It would start 1.6 km in, and finish with 4.2 km left to climb (before the short final descent)
Rafionain-Glas02-11-2026 - Welcome to the off-season.
santiagobenites02-11-2026 - guillaume martin in this list is quite a surprise as a gc rider.Ketterechts02-11-2026
- Who cares what Bruyneel thinks. He and his best mate Lance, the biggest fraud in the history of sport, have no place commenting on anything but how to lie and cheat!whit2pet02-11-2026
- Eeesh!Lozza02-11-2026
- bravo! a rider likes jonas needs motivation and he needs to believe in being able to reach goals. he - like anybody else in the world - doesn't believe that he can win the tdf with pogi present. and what's it worth for when pogi is not there? second class victory only. he has checked all three grand tours, so what is left if not retire? the classics! go for it, jonas!Ketterechts02-11-2026
- i am sure that under the pretext of medical examination a lot worse has happened when they were under.abstractengineer02-11-2026
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