Remco Evenepoel, as a teammate, is not a problem for the German cycling star Florian Lipowitz.
The change of the Belgian Olympic champion to Team Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe for the 2026 season was discussed in detail with tour thirds Lipowitz, the team boss told the “Deutschlandfunk”. “I want to say that it fits for Florian,” said.
Denk gave no specific information about the future division of roles in the team. You will have to discuss this internally “for one race”. “We think we will divide the Grand Tours quite well.”
Lipowitz surprisingly ended the past Tour de France in third place, but even Evenepoel is a man for the captain’s role. However, thinking indicated that there was not only a “one-man captain strategy” for the tour.
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe wants to be “the best bike team in the world,” said Denk. Evenepoel is a logical obligation. “We are proud that we have a driver who has already achieved so much in his young years, but of whom we also believe that much more, much more will come, now in our ranks,” said Denk.
Evenepoel was able to afford it, as you have always had something on the habit side in recent years and have a “very good budget” with the sponsoring partners.
Evenepoel, who won gold in the street race and time trial at the 2024 Olympics in Paris and is also a time trial world champion, was originally bound to the Belgian team Soudal Quick-Step until the end of 2026.