Barguil signs for Fortuneo-Oscaro

Fortuneo-Oscaro has announced the signing of Warren Barguil for the 2018 season. The Breton was still under contract with Team Sunweb, but had talked of his desire to move to a French team in recent weeks.

In a statement on Wednesday, Fortuneo-Oscaro also confirmed that Amael Moinard will join the team from BMC Racing.

Barguil enjoyed a hugely successful Tour de France, winning two stages and the king of the mountains title, and placing 10th overall. By the time the race reached Paris, Barguil was already heavily linked with a move to either Fortuneo-Oscaro or Jerome Pineau’s new team, which is expected to be backed by Vital Concept.

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The 25-year-old Barguil turned professional with Team Sunweb (then Argos-Shimano) in 2013, but had spent some time as a stagiaire with Fortuneo-Oscaro’s precursor Bretagne-Schuller in 2011. Barguil says that joining the squad will allow his natural temperament of an attacker to come to the fore, and highlighted the importance of joining a Breton team.

“I am very happy to join the Fortuneo-Oscaro team,” Barguil said in a team press release. “I have watched the team's rise in recent years and as the last Tour de France shows that there is a very solid collective, and individuals capable of taking us to very beautiful places at this level of competition.

“Emmanuel Hubert has the ambition to make the team grow with a project that I find it exciting, consisting of looking for results in the biggest international races, while maintaining this ‘family’ state of mind. Emmanuel understood how I wanted to work in the image of what I was able to do on the last Tour de France: to let my natural temperament of an attacker speak.

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