{"id":170154,"date":"2025-06-09T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170154\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:48:10","slug":"it-cant-be-a-coincidence-that-tadej-pogacar-mathieu-van-der-poel-remco-evenepoel-are-childless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170154\/","title":{"rendered":"It can&#8217;t be a coincidence that Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel &#038; Remco Evenepoel are childless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to 42-year-old Dutchman <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/stef-clement\" title=\"Stef Clement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stef Clement<\/a>, who ended his pro career riding for Team LottoNL-Jumbo &#8211; the now-Team Visma | Lease a Bike &#8211; Vingegaard&#8217;s disadvantage when compared to the likes of Pogacar, Van der Poel and Evenepoel, is the fact that the Dane has more of a life away from the bike, with his priorities sometimes being split.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s competing against Pogacar, who seems to have a completely different attitude to life. It can hardly be a coincidence that the wonderkids of the current peloton \u2013 Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel, and Remco Evenepoel \u2013 are all childless,\u201d says Clement in conversation with  Helden Magazine. \u201cI get the sense that they ride with a greater sense of freedom, they find it easier to throw themselves into a race, and they seem able to focus entirely on cycling in a way that\u2019s just a little more complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This split in focus is used as a criticism of Vingegaard from some fans, with the fact that the Dane&#8217;s season is based around the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> being compared to the year round exploits of his Maillot Jaune rivals Pogacar and Evenepoel. The attitude of Vingegaard is also a let less carefree, according to Clement&#8217;s colleague Karsten Kroon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVingegaard has previously admitted he struggles with the pressure he feels. That\u2019s something Pogacar doesn\u2019t seem fazed by in the slightest. He just doesn\u2019t care \u2013 he\u2019s smiling before the start, during the race, and afterwards,\u201d Kroon analyses. \u201cI believe Vingegaard could absolutely handle racing more frequently \u2013 physically, that is. But mentally? I\u2019m not so sure he could cope with that much more racing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to 42-year-old Dutchman Stef Clement, who ended his pro career riding for Team LottoNL-Jumbo &#8211; the now-Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114653253098038472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}