{"id":175955,"date":"2025-06-11T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175955\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:07:12","slug":"he-may-even-talk-down-specialists-on-a-certain-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175955\/","title":{"rendered":"He may even talk down specialists on a certain subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tiesj-benoot\" title=\"Tiesj Benoot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiesj Benoot<\/a> belongs among the more experienced men in the peloton. Over those 10 years as a pro he has met various riders. Among all the personalities he had the opportunity to work with, who stood out to him as the smartest? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Storer is a special Australian with an Italian girlfriend. He started reading Italian books fairly early on. It\u2019s not easy reading in another language. He\u2019s also vegan, but apparently it\u2019s a flexible concept. Our chef once made wraps with salmon and Michael immediately had one too. &#8216;What, you\u2019re vegan, aren\u2019t you?&#8217; we said. &#8216;Yeah, that\u2019s right, but I like salmon.&#8217; We all burst out laughing of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is his teammate such a genius as well? &#8220;I have to watch what I say because we share a room here on the Sierra Nevada. Otherwise he might start to float, you know,&#8221; Benoot winks. &#8220;Victor is anything but mainstream, he can think out of the box really well. Put him with a few specialists on a certain subject and there\u2019s a chance he\u2019ll talk them down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What did he say? That I once told him that he has a good sense of when to attack in a race. So funny. I did once say that I admire his uncalculated, and also a bit stupid way of racing. Stupid as a compliment then, having the gift \u2013 let\u2019s say \u2013 of just letting go of everything and going for it. That mentality has already brought him quite a bit. I think he\u2019s already told a hundred people that I said that to him. It\u2019s becoming a running joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiesj Benoot belongs among the more experienced men in the peloton. Over those 10 years as a pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175955","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\/114665360789166502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175955","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=175955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}