Adam and Simon Yates will lead the Orica-GreenEdge team in the Basque Country at the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco WorldTour stage race with Simon Gerrans free to chase stage wins. The Australian team has won at least one stage since it first appearance in 2012, with Michael Matthews wining stage 1 and wearing the first leader's jersey at the 2015 edition of the race.
A stage winner in 2013, Gerrans will be aiming for his first win on European soil in 2016 having won his fourth Tour Down Under title in January with the remainder of the team based around the GC ambitions of the Yates'.
"We have a really good mix of riders for this year's race, the team is very well balanced," said sports director Neil Stephens. "It's always a hard event due to the terrain and the climbers will be very important for us.
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"It's a really competitive field with lots of the grand tour contenders taking part. We are aiming to be up there with the best guys but we know it won't be an easy task."
Having finished top-ten in three of the four one-week WorldTour stage races he started last year, Simon Yates enters the race in form after his seventh place in Paris-Nice and Stephens is backing the British rider to match his fifth place from last year.
"Simon (Yates) achieved a great result here in 2015 and all in all it was a good week for us," continued Stephens. "It would fantastic if we can produce that kind of performance again this year."
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