Cycling-Carapaz joins NSN on three-year deal

Oct 17 (Reuters) Former Giro d Italia winner and Olympic champion Richard Carapaz joined NSN Cycling ​Team on Friday, after ‌leaving EF Education-EasyPost a year before the end of his contract. The 33-year-old Ecuadorean, who won the Giro in ‌2019 ​and road race ⁠gold at the ⁠Tokyo Olympics in 2021, signed a three-year deal with NSN, formerly known as Israel–Premier Tech. I m really ​looking forward to it, and to be honest, this ⁠reminds me a ⁠lot of when I ​signed my first professional contract, when ​I was incredibly excited about being ‌in the WorldTour, Carapaz said in a statement. The team has big ambitions to keep growing ⁠and already in my conversations with the performance team, it was clear we ⁠share ‌the same desire to ⁠keep improving and achieve ​big ‌things together. Carapaz, renowned for ​his climbing ⁠ability, won two stages at this year s Tour de France to finish eighth overall. (Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by ​Sam Holmes)