Groupama-FDJ confirmed the final three riders for their lineup for the 2023 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France with Thibaut ⛦Pinot, Stefan Küng and David Gaud🔴u headlining their team as expected.

For climbing star Pinot, the 2023 edition will be his last-ever Tour de France, while Gaudu is keen to improve his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fourth-place overall🎶 from the 🐠2022 race.

The 🅷168澳洲5最新开奖结果:absence of s𒀰printer Arnaud Démare already created a controversy when it was announced last week, with the Tour roster focussed principally on Gaudu. The final rider announcement today saw Australian climber Michael Storer finally ♚not selected, which has also raised eyebrows in some quarters.

Swiss time triallist Stefan ꧋Küng, a recent winner of the opening time trial of his home stage race, was also named in the lineup. Küng already said that he was disappointed the only TT on the route this year, a hilly one in the third week, was not suited to specialists against the clo🍨ck like himself.

Team management said that Gaudu’s objecꦺtive would be to finish on the podium but that the squad would also push for stage wins.

“I am very pleased to be taking part in this year’s Tour de France,” Ga✃udu said in a team press release Wednesday.

“We have a great team♎ again and I’m very pleased to be able to ride alongside Thibaut in his last-ever Tour participation, after everything he taught me about this race overღ the years.

“Last year we got fourth overall and this year the objective is to progress. We&rs🎉quo;ll try and step up a spot, which is perhaps one of the har🐲dest things to do. But we’re all ready to take on this challenge.”

Gauꦅdu recently finished a below-expectations 30th overall in the Critérium du Dauphiné, but hoped to 💦bounce back in July.

“I&rsqu𒁃o;m evidently very happy to take part in my last Tour,” added Pinot, who first raced the Tour de France in 2012, winning a memorable solo victory at Porrentruy. He recently claimed the King of the Mountains🦂 title in the Giro d’Italia.

“The Giro wa🎃s an exhausting race, but I feel ready for this challenge. I’ve just done a recon of some stages and a training ꦏcamp at La Clusaz and I hope I have the same legs as I had at the end of the Giro.

“I’m keen to take part in this race at 100% for one last t🦩ime.”