{"id":198148,"date":"2025-06-19T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198148\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:29:13","slug":"it-would-be-wonderful-if-they-tried-this-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/198148\/","title":{"rendered":"It would be wonderful if they tried this challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned, Merckx now wants two of the modern sport&#8217;s leading lights to attempt the hour record, namely <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/remco-evenepoel\" title=\"Remco Evenepoel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a>. &#8220;The Slovenian is the best, the most versatile rider out there. But Remco has incredible aerodynamics. It would be wonderful if they tried this challenge,&#8221; says Merckx, who admits his compatriot Evenepoel is the more likely of the two to one day take on the challenge. &#8220;With Pogacar, it&#8217;s a very different kind of cycling. To tell you the truth, ever since I first met him in 2017, we&#8217;ve never once talked about track racing at all. Never. It&#8217;s never come into our conversation, neither on his part, or mine, or the team&#8217;s,&#8221; he concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As mentioned, Merckx now wants two of the modern sport&#8217;s leading lights to attempt the hour record, namely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-198148","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\/114712160742535830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198148","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=198148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}