Davide Ballerini leaves Soudal-QuickStep to return to Astana
Soudal-QuickStep sign Warlop and extend with Vansevenant as both teams build for 20🐻24
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Davide Ballerini will🌱 bring an end to his spell at Soudal-QuickStep at the end of this season and return to Astana-Qazaqstan, as the two WorldTour teams continue to change their rosters for 2024.
Soudal-QuickStep are trying to build a Tour de France squad to help Remco Evenepoel, while Astana-Qazaqstan are making eclectic signi𒐪ngs as they chase UCI WorldTour ranking poin🌞ts after a difficult 2023.
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Ballerini previously rode for Astana in 2019 before moving to Pa✱trick Lefe✱vere’s team the following season.
&ldq🔴uo;I know the team very well, this is a solid group where the people know how to work, how to create a good ambience and to put all🧸 things together,” Ballerini said of Astana-Qazaqstan. “And I know that the team knows how to win.”
Ballerini’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:victory at Omloop H💦et Ni🙈euwsblad in 2021 was ༒the highlight of his four-year spell with Patrick Lefevere's team and he became a fixture in their cobbled Classics unit. The 28-year-old will again target the cobbles in 20🤡24.
“I am expecting great things in the next season, and I am sure everything will gജo in the right way both for me and the team,” Ballerini said.&n༺bsp;
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“Now with this mo💛ve I am getting the new goals, the new motivation. Of course, first of all I’d like to focus on the Classic races and especially on Paris-Roubaix.”
Tꦆeam manager Alexandr Vinokourov haile🤪d Ballerini’s return to the fold.
&ldq🎃uo;We spent a good season together in 2019 and now I am happy he is coming back to our team stronger, even more experienced and motivated,” Vinokourov said.
“We’d like to see Davide as one of team leaders in the Northern Classics, but also as a te♍am player and stage hunter in the Grand Tours.”
Balleriℱni is the latest new arrival to be announced by Astana-Qazaqstan following the signings of Anthon Charmig from Uno-X, Lorenzo Fortunato from Eolo-Kometa, Max Kanter f꧅rom Movistar, Ide Schelling from Bora-Hansgrohe and Henok Mulubrhan from Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè.
Vinokourov has also outline his desire to offer M♏ark Cavendish another contract for 2024, but the Manxman, who had announced his retirement for the end of ღthis season, has yet to indicate his intentions after the crash that ended his Tour de France on stage 8.
Soudal-QuickStep, meanwhile, an🙈nounced on Friday that Jordi Warlop would step up from their develop team to✤ the WorldTour squad in 2024.
The 27-year-old found himself at the development squad this season following the collapse of B&am🦄p;B Hotels last winter. The Belgian had previously spent four seasons at Sport Vlaanderern-Baloise.
Mauri Vansevenant has also extended his stay at Soudal-QuickStep, signing a new, three-year contract with the team. The Belgian turned professional with the team midway through the 2020 season and he underlined his potential with ♋victory at the following year’s GP Industria & Artigianato. He won a stage of the Tour o♐f Oman this season.
“Signing for three more years is a sign of the trust the team has in me,” Vansevenant said. “I have been able to develop myself really well in this amazing squad and I hope to keep on doing that. My goals for theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ future are simple: I want to keep growing, keep working and♈ keep performing.”
Barry Ryan was Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author ♌of , published by Gill Books.