How the old roadbin decided to dismantle the best team in the world
Once upon a time, there was the Wolfpack, a pack of voracious people who for almost 30 years imposed their law on one-day cycling races (classics), for better and for worse, after the occasion was born in the shape of a cube, even for the worse determining the order by design in the most iconic race on the international calendar. Over the years, the team has changed its name several times. After being born in the form of a cube, she always kept the prophetic and accelerated second name. At the controls was an old cyclist, as mediocre on the pedals as he was brilliant behind the desk.
This story in cycling seems like a fairy tale, which will one day be told to the grandchildren of cycling lovers and sums up the sad end of the glorious career of Patrick Lefevere, the man whose successes on the monuments of cycling are difficult to tell. Johan Museeuw, Paolo Bettini, and Tom Bonnen were the most fruitful interpreters of his way of interpreting racing, a happy evolution of a style introduced in the seventies by Peter Post’s “Raleigh”; Many were the champions, ready both to win alone and to support a teammate who is better off during the day. The three mentioned seasoned with the rainbow jersey, a multitude of great classics won and more recently it was Remco Evenepoel, who also did the same.
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