Patrick Lefevere Archives

Wheels Roundup: Lefevere Fined, Visma–Lease a Bike Documentary Reveals In-Fighting at Vuelta

March 15, 2024 at 2:14 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

Not long after criticizing both the lifestyle and the partner of his French rider Julian Alaphilippe, for which Lefevere had to apologize, he has been handed a conditional fine by the UCI for “public comments considered as disparaging towards women.”

Wheels Roundup: The Lefevere-Alaphilippe Feud Heats Up and Other News

February 23, 2024 at 8:16 am4 min reading

Road cycling

Patrick Lefevere, the highly successful general manager of Soudal Quick-Step was never one for diplomacy. But now his critical fusillades targeting his struggling two-time world road race champion Julian Alaphilippe may have caused collateral damage, namely Alaphilippe’s partner, the Tour de France Femmes director Marion…

Wheels Roundup: Kopecky May Skip Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift & Other News

January 29, 2024 at 2:58 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

Reigning world road race champion Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) may sit out this year’s Tour de France Femmes (TdFF) to concentrate on the Paris Summer Olympics. Speaking to the press recently, she said, “First I [will] focus on the Classics because those are also very…

Jumbo-Visma, Soudal-QuickStep Merger Would Transform WorldTour

September 27, 2023 at 4:24 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

The cycling transfer market, and the entire sport as well, has been shaken in recent days by reports in multiple publications of a possible merger between the WorldTour teams Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-QuickStep, to create what would be a super-team capable, at first glance, of monopolizing…

Is Evenepoel Moving to Ineos? Maybe, Maybe Not

August 16, 2023 at 12:46 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

It is a testament to Remco Evenepoel’s talent and popularity that the cycling ecosystem has been abuzz with rumors, assertions, refutations and denials about his possible transfer from Soudal-QuickStep to Ineos Grenadiers since last October. The argument for such a move is very strong: Evenepoel…

Soudal–Quick-Step: On the Wings of Evenepoel

May 10, 2023 at 12:29 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

Outspoken, adj., “Frank and unreserved in speech”, like Patrick Levefere, the general manager of the UCI World Team Soudal–Quick-Step. According to Cycling Ranking, he is the most successful team general manager in road racing history, so he has earned the right to be outspoken. And…

Mark Cavendish Wins British National Road Championship: ‘I’m good enough to do the Tour’

June 27, 2022 at 8:50 am3 min reading

Road cycling

“Can you imagine winning the 35th Tour de France stage in the British champion’s jersey? It’d be really beautiful.”

Mark Cavendish Offered One-Year Extension at Deceuninck-QuickStep

September 15, 2021 at 12:45 pm3 min reading

Road cycling

The headline sounds promising, but the negotiations are far from finished. The British sprinter, who won the Škoda Green Jersey at this year’‘s Tour de France and Patrick Lefevere, the team‘s GM, has not are yet to agreed on financial terms with Patrick Lefevere, the…

Fabio Jakobsen Was Put on a Provisional Starting List of a Belgian One-Day Race

February 17, 2021 at 3:43 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

The Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider is still recovering from his crash at the 2020 Tour of Poland. Jakobsen has just undergone another operation but will be back at training soon. Will we see him at the GP Monseré?

Andrea Tafi: “Paris-Roubaix Is a Love/Hate Challenge”

April 24, 2019 at 8:37 am5 min reading

Road cycling

To commemorate his 1999 victory at Paris-Roubaix, Andrea Tafi wanted to come out of retirement and race the French monument once more. The 52-year-old was supposed to start a few minutes ahead of the race and planned on holding the peloton off for as long…