{"id":45351,"date":"2025-08-05T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45351\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:59:08","slug":"remco-evenepoel-transfer-causes-a-stir-as-soudal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45351\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel transfer causes a stir as Soudal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the cycling world hits August and the transfer window<br \/>\nopens, all eyes are on one deal: <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/remco-evenepoel\" title=\"Remco Evenepoel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a>\u2019s highly anticipated move from<br \/>\nSoudal \u2013 Quick-Step to Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe. While it\u2019s yet to be<br \/>\nofficially announced, insiders like Daniel Benson and Ciro Scognamiglio reported<br \/>\nlast month that the deal is effectively sealed. The delay in confirmation<br \/>\nappears to be strategic, but the implications for the rest of the peloton are<br \/>\nalready beginning to unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Evenepoel\u2019s transfer isn\u2019t just about swapping jerseys, as the<br \/>\nBelgian star is bringing with him a significant support structure to the German<br \/>\nteam. Former Belgian national coach Sven Vanthourenhout has already been named<br \/>\nas the new sporting manager at Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe, replacing Rolf<br \/>\nAldag. But Vanthourenhout isn\u2019t arriving alone.<\/p>\n<p>Among the staff joining him are Mattia Cattaneo, a trusted<br \/>\nteammate of Evenepoel\u2019s; Klaas Lodewyck, his long-time team manager; physio<br \/>\nDavid Geeroms; and mechanic Dario Kloeck. It&#8217;s a sweeping shift of personnel<br \/>\nthat underscores how central Evenepoel\u2019s environment is to his performance. The<br \/>\nexit of Lodewyck, in particular, stings for Soudal \u2013 Quick-Step. He\u2019s been one<br \/>\nof the key figures behind the scenes during Evenepoel\u2019s rise.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Evenepoel himself experienced a difficult Tour de France<br \/>\nlast month, despite winning a stage and the wearing the white jersey. The<br \/>\ndouble Olympic champion suffered three torrid days in the Pyrenees before<br \/>\nabandoning, as it became clear that his injury-hit off-season was coming back<br \/>\nto haunt him.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the transfer market, and the Belgian team is already<br \/>\nplanning a response. HLN reports that Maarten Wynants has been approached to<br \/>\njoin the WorldTeam under Jurgen For\u00e9. Wynants is a former rider and long-time<br \/>\nmember of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/team-visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Team Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike setup, dating back to the Rabobank era, and previously<br \/>\nspent several seasons racing for Quick-Step between 2007 and 2010. However,<br \/>\ndespite his past ties, Wynants has chosen to remain at Visma for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the cycling world hits August and the transfer window opens, all eyes are on one deal: Remco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-45351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}