Cummings signs two-year contract extension with Dimension Data
Thomson, Venter, Van Zyl and Janse van Rensburg renew wit🥂h South African team
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Steve Cummings will remain at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dimension Data through the end of the 2019 season after sig𓃲ning a two-year contract extension with the South African-registered team. Th🐬e British champion arrived at the squad from BMC ahead of the 2015 campaign and has enjoyed the best spell of his career in their colours.
Cummings claimed the team's first 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France stage vi💜ctory at Mende in 2015 and repeated the feat with a solo triumph at Lac de Payolle in 2016, a season which also saw him rattle off sta🗹ge wins at Tirreno-Adriatico, the Tour of the Basque County and the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Although Cummings crashed heavily at t🌸his season's Tour of the Basque Country, the 36-year-old recovered in time to win both the road race and the time trial at the British Championships.
"I've spent three of my best years with this t🍌eam. I love the whole project and the way it has progressed and continues to progre♎ss," Cummings said of his decision to extend with Dimension Data.
"I'm super happy, grateful, honoured and proud to be part of this amazi☂ng team and project. There is a real pathway for all aspiring African 🔥riders from Qhubeka to U23 to World Tour level. I want to continue to help the team grow and I look forward to hunting my own opportunities."
Dimension Data also confirmed on Thursday that South African riders Jay Thomson, Jaco Vent🧸er, Johann van Zyl and Jacques Janse van Rensburg have extended their contracts and will remain at the team in 2018.
"It is really exciting to be able to renew the contracts of these riders who in different ways have added so much to this team's cu🐬lture and purpose both on the bike in the races and off the bike with staff, partners and fans," said team manag👍er Doug Ryder. "This team has grown over the years thanks to the fantastic people in it who continue to challenge and push themselves, who get up every day willing and wanting to improve and do more."
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Although Dimension Data have lost the serv✱ices of Nathan Haas, who departs for Katusha-Alpecin in 2018, Louis Meintjes will return to the team after a stint at UAE-Team Emirates, while Mark Cavendish and Edvald Boasso🐬n Hagen both have another season remaining on their existing contracts.
