the prodigy and his discontents

2022 men's elite world championship road race

After I learned, at 2:06 in the morning, that Remco Evenepoel had won the World Championships, I immediately logged onto Twitter, where I was not disappointed. Indeed, the Belgian boy wonder, whose exploits incite perhaps the most combative discourse on social media, had done so again: suspicion abounded. Complaints of domination were intertwined with o…