Report: Garate to join Cannondale-Garmin as a sports director next season

Juan Manuel Garate (Rabo) won the last time the Tour de France finished on Mont Ventoux

Juan Manuel Garate (Rabo) won the last time the Tour de France finished on Mont Ventoux (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Having retired from professional cycling in late-2014, reportedly reneging on a contract with his Belkin team earlier that year, Juan Manuel Garate will make a return to the sport next season as a sports director with the Cannondale-Garmin team according to a report by Biciciclismo. Garate's last race was the 2013 Vuelta a España in which he finished 71st overall.