Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) destroys the field to take another world title, this time in the junior men's road race(Image credit: Chris Auld)
The emotion gets to Evenepoel on the podium(Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Sport)
Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) leads Markus Mayrhofer (Germany)(Image credit: Getty Images)
Remco Evenepoel wins the junior men's time trial title at the 2018 World Championships(Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Sport)
The reigning junior world champion in both the road race and the time trial, Remco Evenepoel, has launched a clothing range, which has been created by his official fan club.
For anyone who's been wondering what the #REV1703 hashtag means that the Belgian has been including in his social media posts, it's a representation of his name and the postcode of the town in Flanders that he comes from – Schepdaal – and now also the name of the new casual clothing range.
"Just to clarify," Evenepoel tweeted a short time after announcing the clothing launch on Tuesday, "I did not create this clothing line – my official fan club did. The profits are going to a charity that I chose personally."
The range is made up of t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and track pants for men, women and children, and are available to buy online.
"All proceeds from the clothing brand that we offer for sale through the web-shop will go to the Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital [in Brussels]," Evenepoel's father, Patrick – a former pro with the Histor and Collstrop teams who won the 1993 Grand Prix de Wallonnie – told Het Laatste Nieuws.
Such philanthropic efforts cap a virtually perfect 2018 season for Evenepoel. The 18-year-old has enjoyed a wealth of wins this year, including the junior edition of Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, the junior Belgian Championship road race and the junior and under-23 European Championship road race and time trial.
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