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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marcel Kittel will make his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France debut at the head of a solid 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Argos-Shimano line-up. The Duꦚtch-based squad announced its nine🍰-man team on Tuesday and enters the race with the aim of taking a stage win.

Two stage victories against the likes of Mark Cavendish and André Greipel at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ster ZLM Toer last week brought Kittel’s tally for the season to s𒐪even, and the German is not lacking in form or confidence as he turns his thoughts to the Tour.

"I’m going to France to challenge🐲 Cavendish,” Kittel said. "I’m looking forward to fighting against him. He is currently the best sprinter in the world.”

A𓆏s expected, the key components of Kittel’s sprint train at last season’s Vuelta a España have made🍰 the Argos-Shimano selection. Roy Curvers and Koen de Kort marshalled Kittel through the final kilometres on that occasion, while Tom Veelers was his lead-out man, a combination which yielded stage victory in Talavera de la Reina.

New signing Patrick Gretsch will play his part in Greipel’s lead-out this time around, but on the opening day he wil⛎l be hoping to get his own race off to the best possible start in the Liège prologue.

The team also includes Johannes Fröhlinger, Albert Timmer and the French duo Matthieu Sprick and Yann Huguet, although there is no place for their promising fellow countryman Alexandre♓ Geniez.

“Our team has a world-class sprint train and with Marcel Kittel we have a young sprinter who in the Tour wi🧜ll explore his possibilities at the highest level,” said co-manager 💯Sissy van Alebeek.

While Kittel’s sprint is Argos-Shimano’s best chance of success in the team’s first Tour appearance since 2009, riders like de Kort will also be encouraged the infil💧trate breakaways in the second and third week of the race. The Dutchma🔯n was an impressive third-place finisher at Dwars door Vlaanderen in March, before a broken collarbone cut short his classics campaign.

Argos-Shimano team for 2012 Tour de France: Marcel Kittel (Ger), Patrick Gretsch (Ger), Roy Curvers (Ned), Koen de Ko𝔍rt (Ned), Tom Veelers (Ned), Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger), Matthieu Sprick (Fra), Albert Timmer (Ned) and Yann Huguet (Fra).