\u201cIt\u2019s done,\u201d wrote respected journalist Ciro Scognamiglio. \u201cSources told La Gazzetta dello Sport that Remco Evenepoel and Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe reached an agreement on Monday. The multi-year contract beginning in 2026 can be considered closed, according to The Cycling Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is hardly a bolt from the blue. Despite Soudal Quick-Step\u2019s gradual pivot from Classics specialists to Grand Tour contenders \u2014 a project reshaped around Evenepoel himself \u2014 the 25-year-old has never appeared fully convinced by the long-term trajectory of Patrick Lefevere\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel has been vocal in recent seasons about what he perceives as insufficient support in the high mountains \u2014 concerns that lingered even after the acquisition of Mikel Landa, who proved a key lieutenant during his podium finish at the 2024 Tour de France. And while he delivered Belgium its first Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a title in 44 years back in 2022, murmurs of dissatisfaction with team structure and race planning have persisted ever since.<\/p>\n
His impending move to Red Bull\u2013BORA thus feels less like a shock and more like an inevitability \u2014 especially given the German team\u2019s growing ambition and financial muscle, supercharged by Red Bull\u2019s arrival as a co-title sponsor. It also wouldn\u2019t be the first time they\u2019ve flexed their transfer market muscle at the expense of Belgian rivals, having previously lured Maxim Van Gils from Lotto.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel arrives as arguably one of the most versatile and decorated riders of his generation. His CV already includes:<\/p>\n
Overall victory at the 2022 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, with five stage wins across the 2022 and 2023 editions<\/p>\n
Back-to-back wins at Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge (2022, 2023)<\/p>\n
Three titles at the Cl\u00e1sica de San Sebasti\u00e1n (2019, 2022, 2023)<\/p>\n
World Championship gold in the road race (2022) and two time trial rainbow jerseys (2023, 2024)<\/p>\n
Double Olympic gold at Paris 2024 \u2014 in both the road race and the time trial<\/p>\n
Stage race overall wins at the Tour de Pologne (2020), UAE Tour (2023), and Volta ao Algarve (2020, 2022, 2024)<\/p>\n
Stage victories at both the Giro d\u2019Italia (2023) and Tour de France (2024, 2025)<\/p>\n
Few riders of the modern era have amassed such a haul across so many terrains and formats \u2014 and Evenepoel is still only 24. His arrival at Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe will give the German team the kind of bona fide GC leader they\u2019ve long lacked, and inject fresh firepower into the already-evolving hierarchy of WorldTour superteams.<\/p>\n
As the 2025 season unfolds, this move \u2014 rather than any single result \u2014 could ultimately stand out as the defining storyline in the ongoing shift of power within the WorldTour. Evenepoel\u2019s transfer doesn\u2019t just reshape the ambitions of Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe; it could redraw the competitive landscape for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s done,\u201d wrote respected journalist Ciro Scognamiglio. \u201cSources told La Gazzetta dello Sport that Remco Evenepoel and Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-22867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}