Swift looking to reboot his career after difficult years at UAE Team Emirates
(Cyclingnews.com)

Ben Swift will ride the Hammer Series in Hong Kong and then the Tour of Guangxi in China, hoping that any late-season success will help him secure a contract for 2019 after UAE Team Emirates opted not to retain the services of the Yorkshireman. Swift struggled with injury in 2017 in his first season with UAE Team Emirates and then fractured a vertebra in his back during this year´s Tour of Flanders. He has been trying to find his best form ever since. He missed the Tour de France and rode the Tour of Britain with Great Britain. He was only a reserve for the final block of racing but got the call and so has been mixing some late training with the search for a new team. Like many riders, Swift is a victim of the budget and roster cuts in the professional peloton that has left a number of talented riders desperately searching for a contract for 2019 as the current season ends.ADVERTISEMENT `I´m still on the market. I´m speaking to a couple of teams. It´s been a strange year but I´m hopeful, though I know that things need to fall into place,` Swift told Cyclingnews before he travelled to Hong Kong. `I know I´ve not shown what I´m capable of in the last two years. It wasn´t a risk joining UAE Team Emirates. I was at a moment in my career when I wanted to see if I could be better than up to that point. I got that opportunity to play my own cards thanks to UAE Team Emirates. `It didn´t work out for one reason or another but if I look back, my training numbers were as solid as ever and I felt good in races but things never really went my way, I was always lacking that last little bit needed to win.` You can read more at Cyclingnews.com