Another great performance of our squad 💥 Soudal Quick-Step finished 3rd in the UCI World Tour Rankings this year, cementing its place as one of the best men’s cycling teams in the world 🤩 #TheWolfpack #WayToRide
"We are very proud of our third place in the world" - Patrick Lefevere gives a rare bit of praise to all his riders after a successful season
CyclingThursday, 07 November 2024 at 23:00
With the 2024 road season over, it's an opportunity to re-evaluate what went well and what quite as much. Team manager of Soudal - Quick-Step can look back at a great season, even though the Wolfpack's misery in spring classics seems to have no end.
Centered around Remco Evenepoel (winner of two Olympic Gold medals, World ITT Champion and 3rd overall at the Tour de France, among others), and sprinter Tim Merlier (winner of 15 professional races this year, including European road race Championships), the Belgian team landed on third spot in the UCI ranking, rounding off the podium far behind dominant UAE Team Emirates and surprsingly close to Visma | Lease a Bike.
All things considered, manager Patrick Lefevere seems to be in unusually cheerful mood recapitulating the 2024 campaign. Long gone are the days when Soudal - Quick-Step dominated classics with limitless firepower and kept winning sprints left and right with the best sprint trains in the world. For the latter part, Tim Merlier still knows his way around in the fast finals, but classics were put aside for a long-term project dubbed 'GC Remco', who along with Mikel Landa carried the Wolfpack's flag high in the biggest (stage) races in the world.
"We are very proud of our third place in the world," Lefevere said in his commentary on team page. "Over the years, we have always aimed to build a team that is consistent throughout the season, which is something that requires a great collective effort, not just from the riders. All this hard work is reflected in the seasonal team standings. We have also shown that we are capable of remaining at the top of the standings for several seasons and not just once, which is another thing that is not easy to do. For this reason, I congratulate everyone."
Read also
claps 0visitors 1262
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- Thanks Dadmobk22-12-2024
- Hard to believe with the advancment of modern medicine he can not find a cause for this.frieders321-12-2024
- You continue to platform these two cheats. With that in mind I can no longer use your site. I know my leaving means little, but, sometimes you have to take a stand. See ya!DJ21-12-2024
- Look at what Froome’s won since his last TdF, stop denying there is still more than possible one outcome to the future.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Bruyneel understands nothing about clean competition.Sweep21-12-2024
- Exactly. Remco won 3 WT races/stages last year compared to Pogocar's 19. Remco's single stage win in last years TdF earned him a meager 12 seconds over Pogocar who shellac'd him by 9 minutes in GC.Sweep21-12-2024
- Fortunately and as you point out, more than one strategy is possible and worth trying and I’m sure all concerned riders are well informed and counselled on this subject and don’t need such basic personal advice through media from an outsider.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- The main SPOTY award is "decided" by public vote but the BBC "expert panel" decide who you can choose from, that choice has an equal split of genders and is focussed on the sports BBC show and a disabled athlete. Oh yea the ubiquitous "Pub Games" candidate there too, Darts and Snooker are not sports. The other awards are decided by the "Expert Panel" again it's about the sports BBC show, cycling has had it. Cav got his for his years and achievements in the sport, not just that 35th TDF win. Unless the BBC get access to Pro Cycling it will never feature "adequately" on SPOTYslappers6621-12-2024
- Ahhh..... you have to understand the "strange" diversity concepts of the BBCslappers6621-12-2024
- Avoiding him is a good strategy, you get more wins and then you can compete in the TDF relatively relaxed. Pit yourself against Pogi and not only there will be no wins, it will be considerable mental setbackabstractengineer21-12-2024