Evenepoel moves out of Belgium to prioritize calm and personal life - "I'm going to focus on my daily life"

Remco Evenepoel has for many years been a leading figure in Belgium's sports, and following an astounding season including wins at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Vuelta a Espana and the World Championships, he will be moving away from all the attention.

In an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws, Evenepoel said: "The region around Alicante is a really beautiful area to train. The weather is good all year round, so it's ideal for my basics and winter training. I also find a training route that is a bit harder than the Ardennes, which is also necessary because I want to keep targeting the Grand Tours and the difficult climbing stage races."

Following his win in the World Championships, the already heavily-followed Evenepoel became an even bigger focus of attention, riding around the country with the rainbow stripes that lured in very big amounts of attention. He has already spent this season several months over the winter in southern and eastern Spain training, and will be moving into the Iberic nation together with his wife.

Evenepoel has confirmed that, also adding the detail that he will, as has been used by the like of Thomas de Gendt and Victor Campenaerts, an hyperbaric chamber in his house - to recreate the effects of an altitude camp. "You earn back the expenses you make for Syncrosfera with such a room in your own house, so we have already thought about that. There are plans for it, but then the architect will have to visit again," he said.

Currently however, Evenepoel is still in Belgium. This season has seen, if it was any possible, an even heavier media presence surrounding him at all times. "The most dangerous thing will be that everyone will want a piece of me. We will have to keep that under control, so far it has worked well," he said.

"I'm going to focus on my daily life, not on something like a singing competition. The people who want something from me won't know where I am or what I'm doing. That should help a bit," he concluded, justifying aswell this move.