Remco Evenepoel is the most successful one-day race rider in modern history - Belgian wins almost one third of every monument and World Championship he starts
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Modern cycling has seen the rise of new stars which are expected to contest with the sport's legends results-wise, and one of them is Remco Evenepoel. Despite being a rider very well fit for the stage-races, he has actually become modern cycling's most efficient winner in the one-day races.
This is a statistic explained by Twitter user @NaichacaCycling who has taken a dive into the win rate of the sport's best since the 1990's. This does not include for example Eddy Merckx who has in the past ruled the sport, but out of the last decades it is possible to see that Evenepoel has won 30% of every Monument, World Championship or Olympic Games event that he's started as an Elite rider.
He has in fact only started five monuments ,but two were the 2022 and 2023 Liège-Bastogne-Liège which he's won. Evenepoel has also won the road race and time-trial World Championships in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Although it is not included, he also carries in his palmarès three victories at the Clásica San Sebastián, stage victories in the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España - the latter which he's also won the GC, and many others. At a fresh 24 years of age, the Belgian already has over 50 victories in his palmarès - an impressive achievement for any rider, but specially for a non-sprinter.
Evenepoel is not isolated at the top of this statistic however, both Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel have won 27.8% of theirs respectively. Pogacar at 25 is a Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Tour of Flanders and triple Il Lombardia winner; whilst van der Poel is the reigning World Champion, Paris-Roubaix, Milano-Sanremo and double Tour of Flanders winner - besides his six world titles in cyclocross.
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This is a nice statistic but feels a little bit like a searched and found metric to make a point, in this case that Remco is the greatest. Small samples always provide surprising results. Statistically is 3 out of 10 more exceptional than 5 out of 18? Why not include the 10 biggest races, (because then Pogacar will be above 30% and above Remco?) And then we do want to mention that he won the timetrial WC but can't include it in the metric because then his score goes down. Same with all his other wins. He is an impressive cyclist and will cycle the majority of his seasons with the rainbow band on his sleeve, but these attempts to enlarge his aura are pathetic.
Agreed but please explain one thing. Why does his score go down by adding one win and one race or are you implying that in order to add that win the number of races that would have to get added is more than 3?
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