Remco Evenepoel sets his sights on the 2024 Tour de France

Remco Evenepoel will make his Tour de France debut this year with his Soudal-Quick Step team

The Belgian, 23, is a two-time world champion and a Grand Tour winner having won the Vuelta a Espana in 2022.

He had to withdraw while leading last year's Giro d'Italia after testing positive for Covid-19 and will not race the Giro d'Italia. It is full focus on his Grand Boucle debut.

Evenepoel won road race gold at the Cycling World Championships in 2022 before winning the individual time trial in Scotland last August.

He was the first Belgian to win world time trial gold, doing so at the championships in Stirling, after claiming silver in 2019 and bronze in 2021.

A month later, his hopes of defending his Vuelta title ended as he cracked on stage 13, but he recovered to win stages 14 and 18.

Evenepoel said: "Last year was a very special one so I can be proud of how things went, but all that happened in 2023 is in the past now and my entire focus is on this year.

"I will race a lot in France in the coming months and I'm hoping for some more good results and a nice debut in Le Tour."

“So this Next season is focused on Liège, the Tour and the Olympic Games in Paris, followed by the World Cup. My ambitions? I hope for a third victory in Liège, it is a dream to leave Paris with two medals," , Evenepoel shared to news outlets, “And then there is the Tour. That will be a voyage of discovery. The gods of stage-racing are at the start with Vingegaard, Pogacar and Roglic. Top five is the ambition. It would be a dream come true if I performed better than just one of these three. And a stage win is also possible, of course. Then I won a stage in the three Grand Tours.”

Evenepoel will start his 2024 campaign at the Figueira Champions Classic, a one-day race in Portugal on February 10th.