Team BikeExchange introduced its numerous Tour de France crew today boasting a effective road bike price trio satisfactory avenue bike manufacturers of opportunists, hunting down level victories as a primary objective for the 108th version, beginning on Saturday, twenty sixth June in Brest.
Former Tour de France degree winners Michael Matthews and Simon Yates, together with two-time Grand Tour podium finisher Esteban Chaves will lead the outfit’s offensive rate, at the same time as 25-12 months-antique Lucas Hamilton seems to gather enjoy within the fashionable category struggle, as he makes his debut appearance.
The first-rate quartet can have experienced help riders guiding them via the 21-degrees, with a trio of powerhouses in Denmark’s Chris Juul-Jensen and Norway’s Amund Grøndahl Jansen; both lining up for his or her fourth Tour de France, plus Australia’s Luke Durbridge, who is set to make his 7th appearance on the ‘Grande Boucle.’
After finishing in second vicinity on two events in his debut look last yr, Slovenian sprinter Luka Mezgec is back for more in 2021 and rounds out the well-balanced eight-rider squad.
Having formerly executed 3 pinnacle-10 normal finishes (2016, 2017, 2020), seven days inside the Maillot Jaune (3x 2013, 4x 2020), one TTT victory, six person degree victories from five special riders and normal victories within the younger rider classification (2016, 2017), Team BikeExchange return confident and bold for its 10th Tour de France begin.
Brent Copeland – General Manager
“We are entering this year’s Tour de France absolutely motivated after a high-quality podium at Giro d’Italia with Simon Yates. We have worked closely together with our crew proprietor Gerry Ryan and Team BikeExchange’s technical body of workers and coaches to choose the most aggressive line-up of riders for this 12 months’s version.
It has not been an clean task through any way to make the final choice because of us having many riders in fantastic circumstance in the mean time, however we are confident inside the method that we’ve got followed.
Our goals and pursuits are one of a kind to that of the current Giro d’Italia where we are able to be broadly speaking concentrated in areas; namely level wins and experience for the younger riders. We also are very excited to have a sturdy presence of Australian riders at this yr’s edition and as constantly, we guarantee some very aggressive and interesting racing from Team BikeExchange for all our lovers
A big thank you also is going out to our team’s clinical workforce and the ASO for the scientific protocols that have been closely monitored in order for one of these prestigious race to be held under the hard situations we all currently face.”
Matt White – Head Sport Director
“We have assembled a totally properly-balanced unit for this year’s TDF. The group has a couple of options as we move after stage wins throughout the whole three weeks.
We are welcoming Michael Matthews back into our TDF roster as we target selective sprints and medium mountain levels. In assist of him, we’ve Luka Mezgec who become very staggering in his Tour debut final 12 months and is capable of triumphing in his very own proper.
We have an engine room that is attempted and examined with road captain Luke Durbridge running with our Scandinavian duo of Chris Juul-Jensen and Amund Grøndahl Jansen, who has plenty of enjoy in riding for global-class leaders.
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