QuickStep Is READY For Evenepoel’s Tour De France DOMINATION

QuickStep Is READY For Evenepoel’s Tour De France DOMINATION

There’s been a lot of talk lately regarding Remco Evenepoel and his team’s ability to help him reach his Tour de France ambitions. And while about half the cycling world thinks Remco is going to get dropped as soon as the roads start tilting into the clouds, we’ve just gotten a confirmation from Soudal Quick-Step’s boss himself, claiming that they love being seen as the underdogs and that their team is powerful enough for Remco’s needs. But is that really the case, or is it just pure chatter? Can the newly formed wolf pack really take Remco to the yellow jersey, or will he tank on the first big climb?

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There’s been a lot of talk lately regarding Remco evapo and his team’s ability to help him reach his tour to France Ambitions and while about half the cycling world thinks Remco is going to get dropped as soon as the roads start tilting into the clouds we’ve just gotten a confirmation from sudal Quick

Step’s boss himself claiming that they love being seen as The Underdogs and that their team is powerful enough for remco’s needs but is that really the case or is it just pure chatter can the newly formed wolf pack really take Remco to the Jersey or will he tank on the

First big climb see Patrick lefer just let the doubters know that they mean business he claimed we have a team that can deliver him in the best way I know many doubt that but I like to be underestimated the team is now literally promising they’ll come out swinging in

Remco’s tour debut and it kind of makes sense since for Patrick lafv and the entire sudal quickstep Squad this upcoming year is all about the tour to France and this isn’t something they’re used to focus on for many many seasons the team was focused pretty much exclusively on the classics races in

Order for their season to be considered successful the Belgian Squad had to win at least the races like Paris ruet or the tour of Flanders and because of that they used to rack up a high number of Victories each season often making them the team with the most wins of any pro

Team out there get this in 2021 they landed 65 victories in 2022 the number was 47 and in 2023 they got a total of 55 in the past the team showed interest in big cycling races such as the grand Tours but when you look at the many

Other races they won their success in these grand Tours was not as impressive in 2014 for example rigoberto uran managed to finish second in the Jiro ditalia then in 2018 enrik Mass was the runner up at the VTA espania finishing only behind Simon Yates but that’s

Pretty much it when it comes to podiums at the grand Tours they only had two Podium finishes between 2003 and 2018 in all those years of their existence and it’s quite an interesting statistic for an otherwise so successful team however things changed in 2022 when Remco evapo

Swept the competition in the welta at espia the outcome was a big success for both him and the team proving that sudal quickstep could actually win 3-we races after that the tour to France has been calling for the young Belgian star Evano is determined to eventually win the

Whole thing this season will be his first time participating in the race and although his fans might wish for him to win on his first try lefa is trying to water down those expectations a little his statement was the pressure will be great again Remco may not say it himself

But he dreams of the podium we’re not going to disguise that ambition but I’m not going to jump off the balcony if it doesn’t work out I believe we have a team that can deliver him in the best way I know many doubt that but I like to

Be underestimated what we have to understand here is that there were times when tensions between Remco and his team’s boss were high and perhaps that’s why sometimes it looks like he’s got mixed feelings about their young star Remco is just 23 years old and undoubtedly has the talent and even more

So ambition to take home the yellow Jersey at the tour an interesting piece of information here is that in the rac’s history Belgian Riders have come out on top 18 times however it is almost 50 years since that has happened for the last time that’s a quite a harsh number

But people who have been following remco’s Journey believe he has a real chance to emulate the last Belgian winner who won in 1976 and while the odds might be against him and it’s questionable whether he can pull it off in 2024 few would bet against his triumph over the next few

Years and that’s exactly why so many teams were trying to steal Remco last summer with inos grenadiers amongst those who were hunting for his signature see soal quickstep was under budget pressure and some sources claimed that aaple had concerns about how the team was planning to support him and if they

Could provide the help he needed to win the race there were rumors about even AOL discussing contracts with other teams leading to tensions with his boss who strongly criticized other teams for trying to attract his Star Rider the team manager also wasn’t happy with nao’s father who is also the rider’s

Agent they exchanged many harsh words now several months later lefa says that things have calmed down and the overall chemistry is much better things were said in Glasgow that perhaps I should not have said he admitted and there has been something but I have no discussion with Remco today it happens at some

Point in every Menage but I’m not vindictive I’ve drawn a line under it our relationship is fine but even though they’re fine now the two are not nearly close friends but that’s probably a logical situation between a rider and a manager at least it should be Patrick

Admitted that is not possible in my position it’s difficult for me to get emotionally involved as a team leader you want that bond with your Rider because you always want to know what’s going on in his mind but as a manager distance is necessary when Riders have

Reached the end of their contract they have no compassion for me at the negotiating table it’s also worth mentioning that Patrick lafa is 69 years old and he’s been talking about his potential retirement in recent months there were talks about sudal quickstep and yumbo visma merging but it didn’t

Happen even though both teams kept going lefv mentioned that he would take on a less involved role than he did before recently Jurgen Fay became the new COO of the team and over time LEF will step back from the team entirely but still it’s not certain whether foray will be

His successor as the ultimate decision won’t be up to Patrick but to the majority sharehold holder of the team however his appointment suggests that Leer’s time in charge is coming to an end as for the team it looks like the rumors about it possibly ending next year are not true Patrick mentioned that

There’s a deal with bala the majority shareholder to support the team financially until the end of 2027 ensuring at least four more seasons however he also mentioned that some individual supporters might leave before then he said there is one Nuance in March 2020 5 I will be together with

Bala and my three main sponsors sudal quickstep and specialized if a party no longer feels good it can leave a year earlier so at the end of 2026 the team then still has 21 months to find a new sponsor the future is secured and that security would be even better if Remco

Somehow manages to win the yellow jersey in the meantime but if he doesn’t there have been some rumors about Bora Hans grower hunting Remco Evol as they’re beginning their Rampage into the Red Bull era reports from a German source and the DPA news agency suggest that borans grower is actively pursuing the

Signatures of two valuable Belgian riders for 2025 this move is part of their collaboration with the energy drink giant Red Bull which recently acquired a controlling stake in Bora Hans grower Red Bull’s managing director also admitted he’s got big Ambitions for their cycling project starting in 2025

And those Ambitions are set to stretch far further than chasing the tour to France with R glit alone new sources suggest that both van art and Evano are in their sight Red Bull’s statement on the investment was Red Bull is to expand its involvement in Road cycling and is

Aiming for a partnership with boran’s grower by becoming a partner in team manager Ralph Den’s operating company Red Bull strives to complement the team’s portfolio of existing long-term main sponsors who will remain on a long-term basis both vanart and aan AOL are currently committed to long-term contracts with their current teams in

The case of Evol the fact that borans grower uses the same specialized bike supplier as his current quickstep team could be an appealing Factor but we’ll have to wait and see what unfolds in the coming years