The Israel Cycling Academy has completed their 2018 roster with the announcement of a two-year deal for Omer Goldstein, a promising 21-year-old Israeli the team dismissed from their development squad earlier this season.
"I dreamed about this moment since I started riding an eight-year-old bike," said Goldstein, who is the team's fifth Israeli and the youngest rider on the team.
"But for me the dream is just beginning. I hope to stand in the Academy uniform on podiums. It will take very hard work from me and maybe quite a bit of time, but I got the chance and now I have to prove that I deserve it."
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Goldstein overcame adversity in 2015 when he crashed into a support vehicle while competing in the UCI Road World Championships U23 road race. He returned in 2016 after a long recovery and raced as a trainee with Israel Cycling Academy at the end of that season, finishing in the top 10 of stages at the Tour of Rwanda twice.
Goldstein signed on with the development team for 2017 but ran into trouble with management in June, when he was released from the team for undisclosed disciplinary reasons.
"The team Management has decided that Omer had not been able to fulfill all the team disciplinary requirements and he will therefore part ways with the team on immediate basis," the team wrote on their Facebook page at the time.
2018 roster complete
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