The Belgian Remco Evenepoel consecrated himself as champion of the Route Cycling Test of the Olympic Games of Paris 2024.
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The current double Olympic champion, Remco Evenepoelwill leave the training Soudal-Quick Step At the end of the season to sign for Red Bull-Boraboth teams announced on Tuesday.
“Remco's representatives informed the team's address that he did not want to negotiate a prolongation of his current contract, which expires the final of 2026”Belgian training said in a statement.
The Red Bull-Bora, on the other hand, announced the arrival of the Belgian of 25 years from next year.
“A new chapter opens for one of the most emblematic corridors of its generation: Remco Evenepoel will wear the Red Bull-Bull-Hansgrohe jersey from the next season”Said the German squad.
The Belgian will not fulfill his contract with the team with which he became professional and with whom he conquered the Back to Spain in 2022 and achieved three world champion titles; Online in 2022 and in counterreloj in 2023 and 2024.
Evenepoel prepares to change squad for the first time in his career in the midst of a complicated season for him, disturbed before the beginning by a serious accident last European winter, when he crashed with his bicycle against a vehicle of the Belgian postal service while training.
Far from its best way in the Tour de France, abandoned on the Tourmalet ramps in the fourteenth stageafter having won the counterreloj of the removal stage.
The 2024 was much more successful for him, when the tour was over in the third drawer of the final podium and as the best young man of the race, Before hanging the Olympic gold in counterreloj and online.
Excellent rolling and comfortable in the classics, Its potential is sometimes questioned in the three -week races, despite their victory in the Spanish round.
His signing by Red Bull-Bora was a rumor in the specialized media for several weeks, and even more after the arrival of the Belgian Sven Vanthourenhoutformer coach of Belgium and close to Evenepoel, as sports director of the German team.
Within the Red Bull-Bora form Florian Lipowitzwho happened to him in the third place of the general of the last Tour de France at the end of July.
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