Colombian wonder kid Fernando Gaviria will undergo tests at the Bakala Academy next week as Patrick Lefevere looks to seal the deal to bring the 20-year-old star to Etixx-Quick Step.

“He’s coming to us after the weekend to do some tests. He’s in Paris to do the track World Championships and then from there he’ll come to Kortrijk. We’ll have a talk, do some tests and then he will return to Colombia,’ Lefevere told Cyclingnews.

“We’ll try to sign him if the tests are good but we’ll of course respect his plans for the Olympics.”

Lefevere says it may be difficult to get the Colombian into the team early as a stagiarire this autumn if he wants to challenge at the Tour de l’Avenir and U23 Road Worlds.

"We didn’t talk about that. Not yet. With stagiaires doing the road Worlds, they often ride the Tour d L’Avenir so you only see them once or twice and I don’t know if it’s too hard to make him a stagiaire," Lefevere said.