Bakelants signs with Circus-Wanty Gobert-Tormans

Jan Bakelants wearing Sunweb team jersey
(Image credit: Team Sunweb)

The Circus-Wanty Gobert-Tormans team announced it has signed 33-year-old Jan Bakelants as the final rider of a 26-man team for this season.

The Belgian, who wore the yellow jersey during the 2013 Tour de France, moves across after one year with Team Sunweb. He ended four seasons with AG2R La Mondiale in 2017 with a terrible crash in Il Lombardia, going over the barriers and into a ravine on the descent of the Sormano that left him with four fractured vertebrae and seven rib fractures. He said he is 1cm shorter from the crash.

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