Domenico Pozzovivo has outlined the structure of his 2016 season, which will be build around a Grand Tour double of the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France.
There was talk about the Italian, who turned 33 on Monday, making his debut at the Tour next year, and he has given confirmation of this, along with the rest of his early-season calendar, to Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.
He will return to the Italian Grand Tour, where he has four top 10 finishes, for the 10th time in his career, and will target the general classification, though he will assume joint leadership with his Ag2r La Mondiale teammate, Jean-Christophe Peraud. At the Tour he will take on support duties for undisputed leader Romain Bardet but is still eyeing a high overall finish.
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"Peraud will also be there and we will be co-leaders," Pozzovivo said of next year's Giro, according to Gazzetta. "My goal is to finish in the top five, but better still if I can beat my fifth place of 2014, which is my best result."
Pozzovivo went into this year's edition of the race as one of the outside favourites, but his race was over as early as stage three when he suffered a horror crash and lay motionless on the road for a short while, before being taken to hospital and escaping serious facial injuries.
Pozzovivo will finally make his Tour de France debut after three years at Ag2r-La Mondiale. Before joining the French WorldTour team he rode for Italian Pro Continental teams,
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