Having been left off Giant-Shimano's roster, Dries Devenyns has found a new home for 2015. The classics specialist will be riding for IAM where he is set to play a key role in the classics.
Next year Dries Devenyns will be riding alongside Sylvain Chavanel at IAM, Het Nieuwsblad reports. The team will be led by his compatriot Rik Verbrugghe in 2015.
In 2014 Devenyns has been riding for Team Giant-Shimano where he mainly played a support role for John Degenkolb in the spring classics. The 31-year-old Belgian crashed heavily on the descent of the Col d'Izoard while he was on the attack in the Tour de France stage to Risoul. He suffered a shoulder fracture and a collapsed lung and missed a big part of the second half of the season. In his new team, he will join forces with Chavanel and Heinrich Haussler in the classics.
IAM have built a broader Belgian base in 2015 as Devenyns is their third signing from the country. Earlier Thomas Degand and Jonas Vangenechten have confirmed that they will be riding for the team next year.
Dries Devenyns rides next year alongside Sylvain Chavanel at IAM Cycling. That is the team now led by Rik Verbrugghe who was general manager. Is Devenyns comes Giant-Shimano where he had the support of John Degenkolb in the Flemish spring.
The 31-year-old Kwaremont to fell heavily in the descent of the Col d'Izoard when he was in the attack in the Tour stage to Risoul. He walked thereby including a shoulder fracture and a collapsed lung on. With Dries Devenyns, Thomas Degand (Wanty Groupe Gobert) and Jonas Genechten (Lotto-Belisol) next season three compatriots in the Swiss team of the late Kristof Goddaert.
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