US criterium champion Eric Marcotte will ride for Jamis next year after Team SmartStop, where he rode for the past two years, announced it would fold at the end of this season.
Marcotte, 35, is a powerful all-rounder who won the US road race championship in 2014 and followed it up with the criterium title earlier this year.
Jamis manager Sebastian Alexandre said he began talking with Marcotte this year at the USA Pro Challenge.
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“I was honestly looking at [Travis] McCabe or Marcotte, one of the two I think would be a good addition to the team,” Alexandre said. “I talked to Eric and he was interested. He said he liked the team was interested in us.
“He said he was looking for a good team and a good organisation where he can race a couple more years, and he thought the team was a good fit. He knows we’re looking to do the big races, and he wants to be a part of that.”
Marcotte will join returning Jamis riders Lucas Haedo, Luis Amaran, Stephen Leece and Carson Miller on the 2016 team. Stephen Bassett, who this year won a stage of the Tour of Namur in Belgium with the U23 national team, comes to Jamis next year from the Hagens Berman development team.
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