"I'll stay where I am. No transfers" - Remco Evenepoel is definitive

Speculation surrounding the future of Remco Evenepoel never seems to end. Over recent seasons, the likes of INEOS Grenadiers, Team Visma | Lease a Bike and of late, Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe have all been rumoured suitors but continually, Soudal - Quick-Step remains the home of the double Olympic champion.

On Thursday, reports came in that Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe had pulled out of transfer talks for Evenepoel, signalling another season at Soudal - Quick-Step and ahead of the men's elite road race at the 2024 World Championships in Zurich, the Belgian revealed some more details on his future in the peloton.

"I'll stay where I am, that's pretty clear," Evenepoel definitively from outside the Belgian team hotel, in quotes collected by Cycling News. "No transfers."

"There has been speculation as always and I think some information was more than I knew myself, which was pretty funny to hear, but nothing changes," Evenepoel added further in his pre-race press conference. "I'll stay with my Soudal - Quick-Step teammates. We'll work and fight for the biggest goal, that is to one day win the Tour de France."

On his Tour de France debut earlier this summer, Evenepoel took a creditable 3rd behind Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. With Patrick Lefevere and Soudal - Quick-Step making a continued and concerted effort to improve the team's climbing ranks in support of Evenepoel, it's understandable the Belgian feels staying at the team is the right move. In preparation for 2025, the team has already brought in the likes of Valentin Paret-Peintre, from Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team and with a reinvigorated Mikel Landa starring across the 2024 season, Evenepoel climbing support ranks look set to continue to be boosted ready for the 2025 season, where both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France are reportedly on Evenepoel's programme.