According to information from the Gazzetta dello Sport, Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel has agreed to join Red Bull – Bora Hansgrohe next season, for at least three years.
Announced on the departure of Sudal-Quick Step regularly for several years, Remco Evenepoel will take the plunge next winter. In any case, this is what reveals La Gazzetta dello Sport This Friday. The Belgian runner would have agreed to join the Red Bull – Bora Hansgrohe team from 2026, and at least until 2028.
“We can consider that it is done,” writes the journalist Ciro Scognamiglio. Long courted by Ineos Grenadiers, the 25 -year -old Olympic champion, is finally preparing to join the German training, considered the third power of the peloton behind Uae Emirates and Visma – Lease a Bike.
His Sudal-Quick Step team, historically specialized in classics, does not seem to have the means to help him in the mountains to win the Tour de France (despite the presence of Valentin Paret-Peintre). Unlike Red Bull – Bora Hansgrohe, who can count next year on Jai Hindley, Daniel Felipe Martinez, Aleksandr Vlasov, Florian Lipowitz and Primoz Roglic, just that!
64 Victories in six seasons for Evenepoel
But Remco Evenepoel has another year of contract with its training, and the German team will therefore have to compensate its Belgian counterpart, which is about to lose its greatest champion in recent years (64 victories since its professional debut in 2019). Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe had put all the odds on his side to attract the Belgian cyclist, recruiting within the “performance and management staff” Sven Vanthourenhout, the former coach of Belgium and close to Evenepoel, but also one of his closest teammates at Soudal-Quick Step, Mattia Cattaneo.
In addition, Red Bull – Bora Hansgrohe uses bikes from the Specialized brand, which is also a personal sponsor of the Belgian cyclist. Thursday, Remco Evenepoel finally communicated about his abandonment on the Tour de France, revealing that he had suffered a fracture of a coast even before the big departure. We are now awaiting confirmation of his transfer.
