{"id":46171,"date":"2025-08-05T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46171\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:54:12","slug":"is-remco-evenepoel-staying-after-all-key-mountain-domestique-extends-contract-at-soudal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46171\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Remco Evenepoel staying after all? Key mountain domestique extends contract at Soudal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/louis-vervaeke\" title=\"Louis Vervaeke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Vervaeke<\/a> has extended his contract with Soudal \u2013<br \/>\nQuick-Step through the 2028 season, confirming a long-term commitment to the<br \/>\nBelgian WorldTour squad. The 31-year-old, who joined the team in 2022 after<br \/>\nracing with Alpecin, has impressed in 2025 despite missing the Tour de France last<br \/>\nmonth due to injury. His season highlight came at the Tour of Oman in February,<br \/>\nwhere he claimed his first professional victory on stage 2 after a breakaway<br \/>\neffort, earning a day in the leader\u2019s jersey too. The team announced the<br \/>\ncontract extension on Saturday, with Vervaeke and team management praising the<br \/>\npartnership they have built over the past 4 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really proud to continue for three more years in the<br \/>\nteam, as there wasn\u2019t any doubt when it came to remaining with the Wolfpack,\u201d<br \/>\nVervaeke said. \u201cThis contract shows the confidence Soudal Quick-Step has in me<br \/>\nand I\u2019m really motivated to show that I can continue being of value to the<br \/>\nsquad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be nice to win a race again in the future, now<br \/>\nthat I got to see how it feels to do it, but at the same time, I want to keep<br \/>\nprogressing, play my domestique role and help the squad get some really big<br \/>\nvictories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTeam CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jurgen-fore\" title=\"Jurgen Fore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jurgen Fore<\/a> said the decision to re-sign Vervaeke<br \/>\nwas straightforward, \u201cExtending the contract of Louis was an easy decision from<br \/>\nboth sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only that he is excellent in his role, as shown<br \/>\nnumerous times in the Classics and the Grand Tours of these last four years,<br \/>\nbut he has improved a lot since joining us \u2013 as evidenced by his victory in<br \/>\nOman this season \u2013 and we believe he can still do it in the coming years. Louis<br \/>\nis a real wolf, somebody who always puts the goals of the group first, and it<br \/>\nmakes us happy he will continue in our jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louis Vervaeke has extended his contract with Soudal \u2013 Quick-Step through the 2028 season, confirming a long-term commitment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-46171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}