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> Were you surprised when Evenepoel said he had thought about quitting?

“How does that work during a rehabilitation period: the winter lasts a long time, you just sit there, you can’t move your shoulder. Then the walls start closing in on you and you start to think negatively. But who doesn’t get down at some point?”
“Evenepoel is from the modern generation: they show their emotions more easily. I see riders crying more and more often after a race. Maybe because there is more stress, but also because that is part of it now. The women melt from that.”
“If I had known that, I would have cried a lot more. Apparently I did nothing but cry for the first two years of my life. That made it all go away. Now I only get emotional at funerals.”

> There is some talk about the fact that he is inspired by Islam.

"I don't know anything about that. I know he used to be Catholic, but now? People laugh at people who pray, but there are still riders who pray. Julien Vermote goes to church and prays. His prayers have been heard: he was without a team for two years."