{"id":594496,"date":"2026-05-20T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:04:12","slug":"remco-evenepoel-trains-in-football-jersey-to-celebrate-arsenals-premier-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594496\/","title":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel trains in football jersey to celebrate Arsenal’s Premier League title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remco Evenepoel sacrificed aerodynamics on Wednesday as he headed out for his latest training camp ride wearing a football shirt.<\/p>\n

The Belgian star is a long-time Arsenal fan, and the London club officially landed the Premier League title on Tuesday night after their rivals Manchester City faltered on the penultimate day of the season.<\/p>\n

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The following morning, Evenepoel<\/a> posted images of himself on social media from his latest training ride in the Sierra Nevada, where he has been beginning his build-up towards the Tour de France<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

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He was wearing a red Arsenal home jersey, which was personalised with his own surname on the back, above the number 10 \u2013 the number associated with the central midfield playmaker role.<\/p>\n

Evenepoel wore the number 10 shirt during a very promising footballing career of his own in his youth, when he played for leading Belgian club side Anderlecht as well as representing his country internationally.<\/p>\n

“Something not many people know is how I\u2019ve always been a huge fan of Arsenal since being a kid,” Evenepoel revealed two years ago after he was spotted watching a match at Arsenal’s stadium for the first time.<\/p>\n

His decision to wear the Arsenal top came with a very minor sponsorship incorrectness, given the large Emirates logo on the front of the Arsenal jerseys \u2013 the same airline that sponsors the UAE Team Emirates-XRG team of Tadej Poga\u010dar, his main rival and race favourite for this year’s Tour de France.<\/p>\n

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Evenepoel logged his first training ride of his Sierra Nevada camp<\/a> on Strava on May 10, which was followed by a couple more short outings and then a few days off before a 200km day that took in 3,846 metres of elevation gain on May 17.<\/p>\n

He has since uploaded rides of just over 50km on Monday and Tuesday, while his Arsenal shirt ride has yet to hit Strava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel sacrificed aerodynamics on Wednesday as he headed out for his latest training camp ride wearing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594496","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\/594496","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=594496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}