Daniel Teklehaimanot, the first Eritrean to race the Tour de France, will bring down the curtain on his Dimension Data career when the Tour of Guangxi concludes Wednesday. `It is my last race with the team. I am looking for other teams. It is October now. It is difficult to organise the situation,` Teklehaimanot told Cyclingnews ahead of stage 3 of the Tour of Guangxi. The 28-year-old joined the South African team in 2014 after two seasons at Orica-GreenEdge. He started his career at the World Cycling Centre, later riding for the Continental Amore & Vita-McDonalds squad and then as a stagiaire for the Cervelo Test Team in 2010 before turning pro with Orica.ADVERTISEMENT After making his Grand Tour debut at the 2012 Vuelta a Espaņa, Teklehaimanot returned to the Spanish race in 2014 and then made his Tour de France debut in 2015. He wore the king of the mountains jersey in the first week of the race before returning to the French Grand Tour the following year and then making his Giro d`Italia debut in May of 2017. He also wore the climber`s jersey at the Giro, adding another chapter to the history of Eritrean and African cycling. `My form was not too bad at the beginning of the season. I had the Giro then nationals, [Tour of] Austria, and then didn`t race for like three months,` Teklehaimanot said of his 2017 season. `I crashed in the last stage of Austria and broke my finger. It was a really bad situation for me. At that moment, I was really motivated again for the Vuelta but this happened with the finger.` Despite the broken finger, for which Teklehaimanot recently had surgery to remove a metal splint, he was still able to finish in seventh place overall at Austria - the best European GC result of his career.
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