Richie Porte returns to Tour Down Under
2017 champion to ꦉbe supported 💃by world champion Mads Pedersen

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Segafredo leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Richie Porte will return to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2020 Tour Down Under, which will be his seventh appearance in a row at the Australian WorldTour stage race, which he won overall in 2017. Accompanying him will be recently crowned road race wor🌞ld champion Mads Pedersen, who will be racing the event for the third time.
Porte has won the race's often decisive 'queen stage' to Willunga Hill 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:on all six of his previous visits, and will look to make it seven – and with it take a second overall title – early next season. Pedersen, meanwhile, is likely to ride in support of his Australian team leader, and potentially target stage wins 🙈from breakaways or in b❀unch sprints.
"Richie is a great guy with a competitive history at the Santos Tour Down Under, and we expect him to put out impressive performances again next year," said race director Mike Turtur in a pr🌞ess release.
"And what an honour it is for us to host the c꧂urrent world champion and have the rainbow jersey riding in South Australia. Mads is a world-cl💧ass rider, and we can't wait to see what he will do in the opening WorldTour event next year," said Turtur.
The rest of Trek-Segafredo's sevenཧ-men squad for the race will be announced closer to the start of the event, with the men's race taking place in and around Adelaide from January 21-26, preceded by the stand-alone Schwalbe Classic criterium in centra🌱l Adelaide on January 19.
Porte and Pedersen are currently taking part in a team training camp in Siracusa, Sicily, in Italy, during which the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:riders' racꦛe programmes have been confirme🍬d and announced. Porte will race at Paris-Nice upon his return to Europe, wౠhich will serve as part of his build-up to being co-leader at the Tour de France alongside Bauke Mollema, while new signing Vincenzo Nibali will target the Giro d'Italia.
Pederse♕n is set to make his To𝄹ur de France debut next year, but will first target the spring cobbled Classics following the Tour Down Under.
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