Greipel and Gilbert to lead Omega Pharma-Lotto at Milan-San Remo
Ger🌺man sprinter has recovered from Tirreno-Adriatico crash
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Philippe Gilbert and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andre Greipel will lead the Omega Pharma-Lotto team at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Milan-San Remo on Saturday.
Gilbert showed his form by winning Sunday's 244km stage at Tirreno-Adriatico with a late surge to the line, while the Greipel has recovered from the facial injuries he suffered♌ while warming🦩 up for the opening team time trial in the Italian stage race.
Gilbert has already won three races this season, having taken the opening stage of the Volta ao Algarve and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Montepaschi Strade Bianchi, before the fifth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico.
Despite his pre-race crash, Greipel rode the team time trial stage with his face covered in bandages but the next day168澳洲5最新开奖结果: the team pulled him out of the race.
“My injuries are h🌠ealing well, and I've been able to train properly again in the last few days,&rd🌠quo; he wrote
The German flew home from Italy for further examinat💯ions in Cologne, Germany, whic🥃h showed that he had not suffered any facial fractures.
He will ride the Nokere-Koerse one-day race in Belgium on W🌺ednesday before leaving for Italy. Heဣ finished third in that race in 2008.
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This will be Greipel's first appearance at Milan-San Remo after being overlooked for a place for the race by his previous team HTC-Columbia, 🎐who preferred to select Mark Cavendish as the protected sprinter. Cavendish won Milan-San Remo at the first attempt in 2009.
The Omega Pharma-Lott🌺o line-up for Milan-San Remo: Philippe Gilbert, Andre Greipel, Adam Hansen, Sebastian Lang, Vicente Reynes, Jürgen Roelandts, Marcel Sieberg, and Jussi Veikkanen.