Report: Team Sky to sign Danny van Poppel
Trek rider targeted for the classics
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek Factory Racing sprinter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Danny van Poppel will be racing in the colours of Team Sky from 2016 according to Dutch reports The 22-year-old claimed a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:breakthrough win on stage 12 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a Espana which further piqued interest in the Dutchman. In 2015 van Poppel has also won two stages at the Tour de Wallonie along with a s🔜tage at the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen.
Dutch news agency AD.nl reports that van Poppel has several WorldTour suitors, including re-signing with Trek, for his signature but has decided to join the British team who have identified him🌱 as a future classics contender. Van Poppel would be the second Dutchman to sign for the team after Wout Poels who recently won stage 5 of the Tour of Britain and helped Chris Froome win a second Tour de France. Team Sky also have Dutch sport director Servais Knaven on its books with the former Paris-Roubaix winner looking after the classics riders.
Van Poppel rode a selection of the Classics ear🌱lier this season with fifth place at Scheldeprijs his best resulℱt, having finished on the podium a year previously, while he was 45th on debut at Paris-Roubaix.
The retirement of Bradley Wiggins coupled with 🍎Geraint Thomas' poꦚssible switch to focusing on stage races over the classics and possible departure of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bernhard Eisel opens the door for an i♊ncoming rider to complement Sky's Classics riders Ian Stannard and L♏uke Rowe.
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