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Ethiopia's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tsgabu Grmay has signed a two-year contract to join Mitchelton-Scott, the Australian WorldTour tea🐽m announc✅ed on Tuesday.

Grmay has ridden the 2018 season with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Segafredo, with whom he was selected to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:ride his third Tour de France in July, but had to quit 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:during stage 2, suffering from abdominal pains.

Prior to that, the climber rode for Bahrain-Merida and Lampre, having turned pro with MTN-Qhube💜ka in 2013.

Grmay is the 💃168澳洲5最新开奖结果:reigning Ethiopian time 🥃trial champion, taking his fifth national title in the discipline in June, while he is also a three-time nati𓂃onal road race champion, having won the title in 2013, 2104 and 2015.

His only other pro wins have come at the African Continental Championships individual time trial in 20𒀰14, and a stage at the Tour de Taiwan in 2013.

However, Grmay's goal is to one day win a sta꧃ge at the🤪 Tour de France.

"When I said back in 2010 and 2011 that my dream was to ride the Tour de France one day, people laughed at꧅ me and said it was impossible. But after six years I made it," Grmay said in a Mitchelton-Sc꧒ott press release.

"Now I believe it's possible that I can win a stage at the Tour de France. That's my dream, and every morning I wake up and that is my goal, and my life, and one day I will do it, for sure🧸," he said.&nbs✨p;"It will be hard, but it was hard to be the first Ethiopian to make the WorldTour and race the Tour de France, so why not?"

Grmay said that 💯he's very excited to be joining Mitchelton-Scott.

"When we got the get the call from the team, it was an easy dec🧸ision because I have been following the team for many years. What the team do ܫin terms of having fun off the bike, but keeping it serious business on the bike, fighting for the win... I want to be part of that.

"I always try to push myself, and smile asܫ much as I can, so it will be perfect with the team," he continued. "I will come in with the role of supporting the GC guys on the climbs, and that will be my main job. I will of course be wherever the team want me to be, especially on the hard mountain days, and I'l♓l work hard for that, and I'm ready."

Head sports director Matt White confirmed that Grmay's main role will be🔴 to help the team's leaders at the Grand Tours and at hilꦗlier races.

"Tsgabu has an interesting story," White said. "He hasn't h🦩ad the normal development through cycling that most of our guys have had, but he is quite an experienced campaigner. He started his career with what was MTN-Qhubeka [now Dimension Data], and he has had a couple of different teams these last years.

"He is a little fighter, and he's a solid little climber. He's only 27, but he's a very v﷽ersatile guy. He time trials well, he climbs well, and he is another guy that we're going to use to back up our leaders in a lot of the 'climber races' throughout the season."