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"I know but I can't say anything yet" - Kasper Asgreen has contract for 2025 sorted with Soudal - Quick-Step departure confirmed
CyclingFriday, 16 August 2024 at 23:30
Despite starring with a stage win at the 2023 Tour de France, Kasper Asgreen has been notably absent from Soudal - Quick-Step's lineups at the first two Grand Tours of 2024. Although he is now set to ride the Vuelta a Espana, as it turns out, it will be one of the final races for Asgreen in Quick-Step colours.
Having initially joined 'The Wolfpack' back in 2018, Asgreen has gone on to take a number of big wins including at the Tour of Flanders and the E3 Saxo Classic in 2021, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne in 2020 and the aforementioned Tour de France stage win last year among others. Despite this however, Soudal - Quick-Step team boss Patrick Lefevere announced earlier this month that Asgreen will be leaving the team upon the expiry of his contract at the end of the 2024 season.
In conversation with Ekstra Bladet from the Soudal - Quick-Step camp on the eve of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana, the 29-year-old Dane revealed he has already secured a contract for next season. "Yes, I know that (where he'll be riding ed.)," Asgreen tells the Danish outlet, although he doesn't reveal where just yet. "The team themselves would like to publish in a press release what is happening. So I can't say anything about that."
The long rumoured suitors are Tudor Pro Cycling Team and although Asgreen doesn't divulge if there is any truth to such talk, he reveals he never doubted he would find a good move upon leaving Soudal - Quick-Step. "I actually took it in stride. My agent has been more nervous than I have been. He has complained a few times that I took it in stride when he wasn't quite so calm," he laughs. "But I thought that it would probably work, and that I probably wouldn't have to go from house to house."
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