After six seasons in Sudal Quick-Step, the Belgian runner will leave his team at the end of the season, one year before the end of his contract.
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The end of an era. At 25, and after six seasons, Remco Evenepoel will leave his cocoon of Sudal Quick-Step at the end of the season. The Olympic road champion on the road and time trial in Paris in 2024 will leave his Belgian team one year from the end of his contract, and join the Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe de Primoz Roglic and Florian Lipowitz, third of the last Tour de France.
“Remco representatives informed the management of the team that he did not want to discuss an extension of his current agreement“announced Sudal-Quick Step in a press releasebefore adding: “The owners and the management of the team decided that it was in the interest of everyone to agree that Remco could move at the end of the 2025 in progress. Although we regret the departure of Remco, we will keep the memories that we have created and will continue to work together to obtain significant results for the rest of the season. “
“A new chapter opens for one of the most emblematic runners of its generation: Remco Evenepoel will wear the jersey of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe from next season”,, for her part, congratulated the German team in a press release. “Remco brings not only an exceptional athletic talent, but also a remarkable state of mind. His determination, his professionalism and his incessant quest for success are truly inspiring”commented Ralph Denk, the boss of Red Bull-Bora, adding that his arrival underlines the ambition to make the team “One of the most attractive forces of the international peloton in the coming years”.
Former footballer, converted to cycling late, Remco Evenepoel had joined the Belgian training in 2019. With Wolfpack, the Belgian won the Vuelta 2022, but also finished third and best of the Tour de France 2024, without forgetting his two successes on Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2022, 2023), his three victories on the Clasica San Sebastian (2019, 2022 2023), and its titles of champion of Belgium on the road (2023) and the time trial (2022, 2025). Figure of the Sudal Quick-Step, Remco Evenepoel had initiated the in-depth transformation of the Belgian team.
Since its foundation in 2003, the Wolpack shone indeed and especially on the races of a day but, in the wake of its Evenepoel standard holder, the Soudal Quick-Step had tried the moult in training cut to play the win on the big towers, around Remco Evenepoel. This worked on the Vuelta in 2022, but not on the Giro in 2021 and 2023, while the Belgian had abandoned during the last Tour de France, allowing Florian Lipotiwtz, his future teammate, to finish third and best young in the big loop.
