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Rohan Dennis to join BMC on Monday

Rohan Dennis
August 1, 2014
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Rohan Dennis, who won a silver medal in the individual time trial at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday, is leaving Garmin-Sharp. In a rare move in pro cycling, he will start competing for his new team, BMC Racing, on Monday.

Dennis received clearance from Team Garmin-Sharp and approval by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the Professional Cycling Council (PCC) to join the BMC Racing Team under a contract that extends into the 2015 season. Co-operation from all parties cleared the way for the 24-year-old Australian to make the switch between the two U.S.-registered WorldTour teams. —Garmin-Sharp press release

“Rohan is a great athlete,” said Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of Slipstream Sports and Garmin-Sharp. “He has been a solid team member and together we have achieved great success, including a stage win at year’s Tour of California and the overall win of 2013 Tour of Alberta. However, we understood his desire to work again with his former director Allan Peiper, when he was given the opportunity to do so in 2015. Rather than prolong the inevitable, we came up with a rare transfer solution that works best for Rohan and both teams. We view this move as not only a good step for the athlete and teams, but as major progress in the way the sport of cycling handles rider transfers. We wish Rohan luck in his new team.”

Dennis appreciated efficiency and speed of the transfer. It is more common for riders to languish on a team until their contracts run out at the end of the year. “I want to thank Jonathan Vaughters, my teammates and the staff at Garmin-Sharp for all the opportunities they gave me the past year and a half,” Dennis said. “I had a lot of success with Garmin-Sharp and I’m very thankful for that.”

In May, Dennis won Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California. He finished that race second overall. He was also runner-up overall at the Circuit de la Sarthe and finished second and third in time trials at Critérium International and the Tour de Suisse, respectively.