De Clercq signs with Wanty-Groupe Gobert
Belgian veteran look𒁏s to share experience with young riders





168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bart De Clercq will ride for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Team Wanty-Groupe Gobert for the next💟 two seasons, the Pro Conti team announced Sunday afternoon. The 31-year-old Belgian has been with Lotto Soud📖al his entire professional career, since 2011.
In those years, De Clercq rode 11 Grand Tours, finishing eight. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:He won a stage at theꦿ 2011 Giro d'Italia and finished 14th overall at the Vuelta a Espana in 2015. Tha🅷t same year he finished second overall in the Tour of Pol𝓰and, having won a stage.
"I look forward to working with young talent like Guillaume Martin. In the coming two years I will make a combination of going for my own chances and on the other hand assis⛄ting riders ꦓlike Martin in the mountain," De Clercq said in the team press release.
"Since my stꦡudies of sports science and teacher physical education I am very interested in training and nutrition. I often read about it and would like to pass on such things to younger riders.
"The past year was a disappointment for me, because𓂃 of problems with my right thighs. I could never reach the level I wanted. But physically I am still at at a decent level. I am definitely not worn out. Especially in hard stage races I want to show me next year. "
Wanty sports director Hilaire Van der Schueren called his new signing "a rider with a wealth of experience in Grand Tours. Over there we want to✨ play him out as a big help for Guillaume Martin in the mountains of the Tour."
"In addition he is able to attack in the third week of a Grand Tour, a type of rider we missed in the past Tour. He can certainly fulfill that role. But I am also convi꧑nced that we can make more of him in a lot of other races, including in the final of the Ardennes classicsꦫ."
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It i💎s the team's fourth new signing for the coming year. 🍰Odd Eiking, Boris Vallée and Timothy Dupont will also join the team.