It says a lot that, in the most successful team in the peloton, the most in-demand rider is an 18-year-old that few had even heard of 12 months ago. Yet such is the impact made by Remco Evenepoel in the year-and-a-half or so since he took up the sport, he already seems a bigger attraction than the likes of former world champion and four-time Monument winner Philippe Gilbert. Deceuninck-Quick-Step held their 2019 team presentation in Calpe, Spain, on Tuesday, and the young Belgian was constantly stalked by the cameras, with a list of interview requests that almost matched the rest of the riders put together. "I’m just a Belgian guy who is doing what he enjoys – riding bikes," Evenepoel said, making it all sound so simple.ADVERTISEMENT "Actually, I’m going to say it how it is: I don’t care about it. All the press and all the media attention, I don’t think about it, I’m just busy with my job." Yet there have been times where it has affected him, not least in the aftermath of the World Championships, when Evenepoel revealed that the Belgian press had gone as far as to seek out his girlfriend in school. "I think it was abused. For sure, for my girlfriend it was not nice. That was too much," he said. Not scared - curious
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