Etixx - Quick-Step with options for Paris-Tours
They have over fifty victories in 2015 but Etixx-Quickstep have no desire in slowing down as they send a competitive team to Paris-Tours – one of the final major one-day races in the calendar.
Matteo Trentin and Gianni Meersman will lead the team should the race end in a sprint, while former Paris-Roubaix winner Niki Terpstra will have a free role and the option to attack before the finish.
The 231km course typically favours bunch sprints but last year saw a break stay away until the line with Jelle Wallays (Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise) taking the win ahead of Thomas Voeckler in a two-up sprint.
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"We have a competitive team that can be good for a solution that normally ends in a sprint," Sport Director Wilfried Peeters said in team statement.
"We have guys like Matteo Trentin and Gianni Meersman, who are fast guys that can contest this kind of finish. Matteo showed in the last weeks that he is passing a great moment of condition. Then we have Niki Terpstra and Yves Lampaert, who can always do something, such as the Binche-Chimay-Binche solo attack of Niki just days ago. So, the team is balanced for various kinds of race situations, and we go there with the hope to end our road season with a good moment."
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