Philippe Gilbert, Marcel Kittel and Daniel Martin will headline Quickstep Floors for the 104th edition of the Grande Boucle
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Quick-Step Floors Team to Tour de France
(photos Tim De Waele)
The Tour de France – cycling’s biggest event – puts on the table this summer a different parcours than those of the past years, with just 37 kilometers of time trial, five mountain stages, seven flat ones, and several others which could create some serious damage in the peloton, as the traps that lie hidden on the route can change the pre-stage scenario, and at the same time force the general classification contenders take the initiative early.
World Tour leader Quick-Step Floors will head to Germany, from where the race is set to start for the first time in three decades, with a strong and experienced team, built around riders who between them have scored 17 of the 35 victories that the outfit managed by Patrick Lefevere has racked up so far this season.
German sprinter Marcel Kittel will be again the team’s designated sprinter, as he’ll try to become only the third active rider with at least ten Tour de France stage triumphs. The 29-year-old will be supported by a powerful lead-out train comprising New Zealand National ITT Champion Jack Bauer, Fabio Sabatini, Czech Road Race Champion Zdenek Stybar (himself a Tour de France stage victor, two years ago, in Lyon), double stage winner Matteo Trentin and Julien Vermote.
Ronde van Vlaanderen and Amstel Gold Race champion Philippe Gilbert, a stage winner and former yellow jersey wearer at the Grande Boucle, will return here for the first time in four years, and the experienced Belgian, who’ll celebrate his 35th birthday during the first week, is sure to give the team a valuable card to play in the hilly stages.
If Gilbert is set to come back on familiar terrain, the same can’t be said of Italian Gianluca Brambilla, who’ll make his first appearance at the Tour de France; the 29-year-old, who put in a strong and impressive ride at last Sunday’s National Championships, will back Dan Martin in the mountains, but at the same time keep an eye on any opportunity which could arise and see him join the select group of active riders who’ve won stages in all three Grand Tours.
Last year, Dan Martin came close to a stage victory at what was his best Tour de France outing, which saw the attack-orientated Irishman make his way into the top 10 overall for the first time in his career. The 30-year-old, who concluded the Critérium du Dauphiné earlier this month in third position for the second season running, after a remarkable final stage which showed his amazing fighting spirit, will have another crack at the general classification, hoping to improve on last year’s result.
Riders
Jack Bauer (NZL)
Gianluca Brambilla (ITA)
Philippe Gilbert (BEL)
Marcel Kittel (GER)
Daniel Martin (IRL)
Fabio Sabatini (ITA)
Zdenek Stybar (CZE)
Matteo Trentin (ITA)
Julien Vermote (BEL)
Sports Director Davide Bramati (ITA)
Brian Holm (DEN)
Wilfried Peeters (BEL)
Tom Steels (BEL)
Website www.letour.fr
Stages
01.07.17 Stage 1 Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf 14.0 km (ITT)
02.07.17 Stage 2 Düsseldorf – Liège 203.5 km
03.07.17 Stage 3 Verviers – Longwy 212.5 km
04.07.17 Stage 4 Mondorf les Bains – Vittel 207.5 km
05.07.17 Stage 5 Vittel – La Planche des Belles Filles 160.5 km
06.07.17 Stage 6 Vesoul – Troyes 216.0 km
07.07.17 Stage 7 Troyes – Nuits Saint George 213.5 km
08.07.17 Stage 8 Dole – Station des Rousses 187.5 km
09.07.17 Stage 9 Nantua – Chambery 181.5 km
10.07.17 Rest Day
11.07.17 Stage 10 Périgueux – Bergerac 178.0 km
12.07.17 Stage 11 Eymet – Pau 203.5 km
13.07.17 Stage 12 Pau – Peyragudes 214.5 km
14.07.17 Stage 13 Saint Girons – Foix 101.0 km
15.07.17 Stage 14 Blagnac – Rodez 181.5 km
16.07.17 Stage 15 Laissac Sévérac l’Église – Le Puy en Velay 189.5 km
17.07.17 Rest Day
18.07.17 Stage 16 Le Puy en Velay – Romans sur Isère 165.0 km
19.07.17 Stage 17 La Mure – Serre-Chevalier 183.0 km
20.07.17 Stage 18 Briançon – Izoard 179.5 km
21.07.17 Stage 19 Embrun – Salon de Provence 222.5 km
22.07.17 Stage 20 Marseille – Marseille 22.5 km (ITT)
23.07.17 Stage 21 Montgeron – Parijs 103.0 km
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