Nice to see Remco & Declercq directly solving the problem. I think fans need to realize more that cyclists have a lot of emotions after a race, defintely if you had to ride in the one moment it rained with a disappointing result partly due to that.
"Remco should know me as a person" - Tim Declercq responds to Evenepoel's apology and denies deliberately slowing Soudal - Quick-Step team time-trial
CyclingThursday, 07 March 2024 at 10:47
Following the team time-trial on stage 3 of Paris-Nice 2024 on Tuesday, Remco Evenepoel blasted his former teammate Tim Declercq for allegedly slowing the Soudal - Quick-Step. Although he has since apologised for his outburst, Declercq believes Evenepoel should have known him better than to suggest such a idea in the first place.
"He stayed ahead of us in a technical corner and didn't move out of the way. A thank you to him. That was really nasty. Tim may have been an ex-teammate, but you don't do something like that. Did he do it on purpose? I hope not, but it is possible," Evenepoel lamented to Sporza post-stage 3, later changing his tone to say "I didn't mean to blame Tim Declercq, it was just an unfortunate event in the race."
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“It was unintentional but it can happen, but I don't see what I could do about it,” Declercq, now at Lidl-Trek, has since responded about the situation, in quotes collected by HLN. “In principle, they should have said to me: we are here. They couldn't say anything into the earpiece from the car because then the first men would hear that too and that is very confusing. I would have stepped aside, because this is the last thing I would do. Remco should know me as a person, that I would never do something like that on purpose. 'It's possible,' I think it's a bit of a shame that he says that."
“At the top of the climb they said: they are 500 meters behind you. I thought: yes, 500 meters. I looked behind me before that bend and only saw a motorcycle, no riders yet," he concludes. "But they came at such a high speed, 20-30 km/h faster than me... On a straight stretch, you can see far behind you and you pull over. But not on that part. I also find it annoying if you bother someone. I would never want to deliberately hinder anyone, it's an unfortunate set of circumstances. He has already apologized personally and then it is good for me too.”
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