Esteban Chaves joins EF Education-Nippo for 2022 after eight years at Team BikeExchange

Esteban Chaves finishing stage 18 of the 2021 Tour de France alongside Ruben Guerreiro and Dylan Teuns

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published 10 August 2021

Esteban Chaves will be leaving the Australian squad Team BikeExchange after eight years to join the American team EF Education-Nippo in 2022 on a one-year contract.

The Colombian has had a turbulent time of late having battled the Epstein-Barr virus between 2018 and 2019 and has since been slowly getting back to top form. He put in a superb display at the Volta a Catalunya to take a stage win, as well as second on another and taking two jerseys (points and mountains).

Chaves said: "I wanted to join the EF Education-Nippo for several reasons. First of all, from the outside, you can see it is like a big family where everyone is driven by the passion of cycling. Also, one of the directors is a rider I really admired when I started riding my bike - Juanma Garate - and finally, I would love to have Colombian team-mates. But most importantly, the cycling kit is really cool, don’t you think?"

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Esteban Chaves joins EF Education-Nippo for 2022 after eight years at Team BikeExchange

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