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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marcel Kittel will lead the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giant-Shimano team at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia, as the Dutch team target the sprints.

Kittel has ꦡmarked himself as one of the top sprinters in the world, and has taken five victories already this sea▨son. This will be the first time that he has taken on the Giro d’Italia. “Our first goal for the Giro d’Italia is to go for a stage and there are plenty of early opportunities for this with several flat days,” said Kittel.

“🐻I got the Tour de Romandie off to a strong start yesterday in the prologue and hope to have a good week of preparation here with some hard racing kilometres to get me ready for the start of the Giro next week.”

The German 168澳洲5♕最新开奖结果:finished third in the prologue in Ascona and will be the hot favourite when the race flattens out on the final two days. At the Giro, Kittel will be supported 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luka Mezgec, who is also a contender for the hillier sprint stages. Mezgec is notꦗ far behind his teammate in the winning stakes, with three stages of the Volta a C🥀atalunya and one at the Handzame Classic.

Outside of the sprints Giant-Shimano don’t have any real general classification and will look to go on the attack with the likes of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tobias Ludvigsson, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Georg Preidler and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Geschke - who finished sec🅰ond to Alberto Contador on stage five ofℱ Tirreno-Adriatico.

“Opportunities like these are gre💯at for learning and development, as being out front in the final stages of a Grand Tour stage is no easy feat,” explained directeur sportif Addy ⛄Engels. “This worked well last year and Tobias very nearly pulled off a big result, finishing fourth on stage 9 after a long breakaway. We will be looking for similar stages and will take it day-by-day without an immediate focus on the overall GC.”

Giant-Shimano team for the Giro d’Italia: Bert de Backer, Simon Geschke, Marcel Kitteꦐl, Tobias Ludvigsson, Luka Mezge𒆙c, Georg Preidler, Tom Stamsnijder, Albert Timmer, Tom Veelers.