Remco Evenepel will wear the Red Bull-Collo-Hansgrohe shirt. A little was known, now you know. And it is a transfer that makes “noise” because the Belgian is not an ordinary cyclist but one who at 25 has already affected his name in the history of cycling. It is a champion and likes or not liked, Remco divides. There are no middle ground to tell this phenomenon that at just 23 years old has already won a Vuelta, two Liège-Bastogne-Leagi, three classics of San Sebastian, two world championships on the road and chronometer and two Olympic medals. There are no middle ground because either you love or hate. Because it is often shocking, often arrogant and does not make the slightest effort to make yourself nice. Born on January 25, 2000 in Schepdaal, a fraction of the Municipality of Dilbeek a few kilometers from Brussels, is the son of Patrick Evenepotelprofessional who between the 80s and 90s battled with Miguel Indurain And Gianni Bugno. It arrives in cycling that counts just over five years ago. First he does the other, above all he plays his passion from football since he was five, in the Anderlecht file of the PSV Eindhoven to the Belgium youth national team where he is also Captain. In short, not a scarce. But then love ends. And it ends when from the PSV they send him to get their bones in the first division in the Malines. They will be the somewhat sad factories of this industrial village in the province of Antwerp, it will be the air of Flanders, it will be that when you are young you will soon change the midfielder of beautiful hopes he decides on the point in white that football no longer does for him and in 2016 he puts the ball in the garage and salt by bike. Four months of apprenticeships have come the first victories: at Bizkaiako Itzulia, one of the most important international competitions in the Junior category, the Aubel-Thimister-le Gleize, the Route des Gèants and the Philippe Gilbert Junior. In 2018 in 47 days he centered 36 wins among the Juniores, national, European and world champion both in line and at the time trial, and 18 years old signs his first professional contract with the Quick-Step Patrick Leffage. The following year he wins the European stopwatch European and wins the silver in the World Cup always a stopwatch. The rest is recent history, including that terrible flight that saw him fall by a wall in a escarpment to the Lombardy Giro. A short but intense story, a predestined story that puts the Belgian already among the great cycling of today whatever one could think, wherever you decide to be, regardless of the (so much) road that will still have to go. Remco is like this: take or leave. He exaggerates when he loses, he exaggerates when he wins, he always exaggerates. Never normal, never trivial: “The arrival of Remco marks more than a simple milestone for us- explains Ralph Denk, CEO of Red Bull-Collo-Hansgrohe- is a clear signal. We are tracing the way to become one of the most interesting forces on the international cycling scene in the years to come and Remco is synonymous with ambition. He does not only want to pedal, he wants to give shape to cycling. Not only does he bring an exceptional athletic. But also an extraordinary mentality.