Bakelants confirms move to AG2R-La Mondiale
Belgian yet to officially sign contract



168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jan Bakelants has confirmed that he will join 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:AG2R-La Mondiale this season, although he is yet to put pen to p🤡aper.
Reports yesterday said that Bakelants had already signed a two-year deal with the French team, but the team denied that was the case. “As the team manager Vincent Lavenu is at the Vuelta the negotiations haven’t progressed,” Bakelants told Het Nieuwsblad. “There shouldᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ be an agreement in the next days and it would certainly be for two seasons.”
Bakelants signed for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Omega Pharma-QuickStep at the beginning of this season when he was left without a team after Fernando Alonso’s failed attempt to take over the Euskaltel team. It had been a tense time for Bakelants, who was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fighting it out for the final spot in the team wi♈th Thomas de Gendt. Bakelants won out, although De Gendt went on to🉐 get a contract with the team – at a reduced salary.
After such a stressful winter in 2013, Bakelants is relived 𝓀to have s🗹ecured the deal. “In these difficult times, with the disappearances of a number of teams, it is better to have certainty as a rider. Fortunately, AG2R-La Mondiale is also an advocate of a two-year contract.”
Bakelants is currently racing at the Tour du Poitou-Charentes, wher𒉰e his teammate Mark Cavendish won the first two stages. The final stage today is a 191-kilometre ride from Lezay t꧑o Poitiers.
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