Gaviria signs with UAE Team Emirates for three years

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Fernando Gavi𒉰ria (Quick-Step Floors) takes first yellow jersey(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Gaviria, as expected, has signed a contract with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates, after reaching an agreement to leave 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Quick-Step Floors a year early. The Colombian signed a three-year deal with his new tea🔯m, reportedly earning more than he would have with the Belgian💯 team.

On Wednesday, Quick-Step Floors manager Patrick Lefevere confirmed that the sprinter was leaving the team, having ended his contract by mutual agreement. Due to financial difficulties, Lefevere told Gaviria in the summer that he could look around for a new team. Even though the team now has a new sponsor, Deceuninck, for 2019, Lefevere still let Gaviria go, indicating that he couldn’t match the UAE offe𝄹r🥃 and preferring to spend the cost of Gaviria's contract in other ways.

Gaviria won nine sprints this season, including two stages in the Tour de France, where he wore the leader’s jersey for one day after winning the opening stage. He also won three stages at the Tour of California, again winning the first stage to take the leader’s jersey, as he also did in his season opener, the Vuelta a San Juan. His best performance was at the Colombia Oro y Paz in February, where he won the 💝first three stages.

Shuffling his sprinters to optimise his team budget is nothing new to Lefevere, who let Marcel Kittel move to Katusha-Alpecin this time last year in order to bump Gaviria up the pecking order. His decision was full🎉y justified as replacement Elia Viviani turned out to be the star sprinter of 2018, winning 18 races. Gaviria's exit will be softened by the emergence of fellow Colombian Alvaro Hodeg and Dutchm🐻an Fabio Jakobsen, both of whom have won multiple races, including at WorldTour level, in outstanding neo-pro campaigns.