We asked Stefan Everts, who himself had a couple of tough title losses, to give his view on fellow Belgian, Jago Geerts, who has lost two consecutive world titles in the toughest way possible – with riders crashing in front him.
“Yeah, I think the whole paddock is sorry for him,” empathises Everts. “But to be sorry doesn’t bring him anything. I am surprised how he takes it and how he deals with it. He just has to continue and move on. Normally, he should have won two championships, last year he was in the running for the title and this year, so it was not for him.
“He was very unlucky. He always fights back and, if you see how fast he came back after his crash in France, impressive. Coming back to the lead and again in the title chase and then again he has been stopped. But that is racing and he needs to pull himself over it and look at the future, and that’s what I think he’s doing. Even if he didn’t win the title, I still have a lot of respect for him how he has been racing and how he deals with it, for sure.”
