"My dream is to be elite world champion against the clock" - Ivan Romeo aspires to surpass Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel
CyclingWednesday, 05 March 2025 at 07:00
Ivan Romeo has started the new season in style. The 21-year-old rider has already won a race with Movistar. In addition, he has shone at the UAE Tour as the best young rider of the race.
At the moment, few Spanish cyclists are as exciting for the future as Romeo. The U23 world time trial champion has very rare physical qualities. At Volta a Comunitat Valenciana and the aforementioned UAE Tour he has shown that there's a lot of depth to the qualities of this promising youngster.
In the new Movistar Team program, called 'Viento de cara', Iván Romeo starred alongside Pelayo Sánchez in a conversation between the two teammates. Both talked about their beginnings, what they remember of their first races with the telephone team, and their goals for the future.
At one point in the conversation, Pelayo asked Romeo about the gold he won at last year's U23 World Time Trial. This prompted the latter to reveal his big dream for this season:
"My dream is to be elite world champion against the clock," says the 21-year-old rider. "The statistics say it's going to be very complicated, but we have to try."
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To win the Time Trial in Rwanda 2025, Iván Romeo will have to take on the world's greatest specialist in the discipline: Remco Evenepoel.
The Belgian has won the last two editions of the World Championships. He is also the reigning Olympic champion and won the European time trial title in 2019, in his first participation.
For now, Evenepoel is recovering from a crash he suffered while training in December. The Soudal - Quick-Step star aims to return in April. His main goal will be to fight the Tour de France against Pogacar and Vingegaard. But after that, he will go all out to defend his world time trial champion title for the third year in a row. Can Iván Romeo take it away from him?
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- I love it when the "little guy" wins!acem8214-05-2025
- Yeah, TdF is completely overrated, only amateurs and has-beens participate. And little ole skimpy Jonas has only won it as often as Switzerland or The Netherlands or Germany and Australia combined. Prestigewise there is NO comparison until he wins either the WC again or something big coz sorry G-W is basically a 2nd rate race at their level and he’s not won much else except a decent collection of stages, which Jonas and plenty of sprinters win too. Until now, MP is about pulling level with Asgreen who also won stages and classics, was a WC and HE got himself a monument and almost as many almosts as Mads but in a career only half as long.Mistermaumau13-05-2025
- Jonas is a great rider but only rides stage races so i would have to say he & Mads are about equal now. Stage racing in general is overvalued i think... (vs the power required to win one day races)Xrider5113-05-2025
- Jonas only does stage raXrider5113-05-2025
- First goats and now great danes, all we need now is a showdown at the tour of turkey, that could maybe slide into grease. Sorry, always happens when I get tired.Mistermaumau13-05-2025
- I think this kind of thing will become quite common in future in light of the way pros have had to up their game and risk-taking. Means more precarity but also a bigger pool.Mistermaumau13-05-2025
- Its difficult to compare the two, since both are fundamentally different as cyclists. Jonas is essentially a stage racer, whereas Mads excels in classics as well as in sprint stages at GTs. At this point of time, Jonas with his two Tour wins, beating Pogacar no less, has the better credentials. If Mads wins a few monuments and some Points Jerseys, the comparison may be closer.Cooldude13-05-2025
- I thought he did quite well in that team if not for the illnesses and strings of bad luck.
KerisVroom13-05-2025 - For his sacrifice, he was rewarded with nice haircut by his team lead. It's heartwarming to see a team lead who appreciates his domestique.KerisVroom13-05-2025
- Have you gone Mads? Jeez, this is the Giro, and apart from there being other races and riders not participating, there are over 150 riders with plots and subplots, including a thing called the GC for which I doubt VERY much he’ll come into contention. Are there no other stories or topics to propose currently? Does every article have to include MP? Comparisons to Wout, to Danes, how hell fare on every single stage. Soon Pogi will start feeling like he’ll have to do some publicity stunt to become relevant again. How about updating us on how his UCI ranking is evolving with all the frenzy?Mistermaumau13-05-2025
Statistics say very complicated, is that before or after considering Remco’s setback? In any case, going for it will probably be a good base for maybe winning some other year. No need to force dreams.