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Van Eetvelt signs a three-year deal with NSN Cycling, leaving Lotto-Intermarché after seven years. He's not fleeing a sinking ship, he's outgrowing one — after seven seasons and a UAE Tour title, he wants a team built around him, not a team he has to share.
He's the fourth significant departure from Lotto-Intermarché this window, after Arnaud De Lie, Liam Slock, and Niels Driesen — a talent drain that would usually read as collapse. But Van Eetvelt's own words point elsewhere: he wanted "an international and professional environment" and says «I want to win more races, no matter what they are.» That's not a rider escaping instability. That's a 25-year-old climber done being one leader among several, ready to be the one.
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