Tony Martin set to move to LottoNL-Jumbo
(Cyclingnews.com)

Cyclingnews has learned that Tony Martin will sign for LottoNL-Jumbo. The German, currently at Katusha Alpecin, has agreed terms on a two-year deal with the Dutch team and will be unveiled as a new signing in September once official team protocol has been completed. Martin, now 33 and in his 11th season as a professional, is a four-time world time trial champion and has won four stages of the Tour de France during his career. LottoNL-Jumbo would not comment about the arrival of Martin when contacted by Cyclingnews but he is expected to form part of the team`s time trial core and improve their team time trial chances at the Tour de France.ADVERTISEMENT Primoz Roglic and Steven Kruijswijk finished fourth and fifth in this year`s Tour de France with LottoNL-Jumbo but they lost over a minute to Team Sky and other major rivals in the Cholet team time trial on stage 3. Martin was forced out of this year`s Tour de France after fracturing vertebra in a crash on stage 8. He has only recently returned to training after four weeks of rest and so will miss Deutschland Tour in Germany. Last week he announced: `My comeback will unfortunately be delayed. The doctors have advised me against a start at the Deutschland Tour. It really hurts me that I can`t be there. But I didn`t argue about and accepted their advice,` he said. You can read more at Cyclingnews.com