Orica-GreenEdge head to the 80th edition of the Tour de Suisse with the aim of repeating its stage win success from 2015 with Michael Matthews. Swiss rider Michael Albasini will provide further options for stage wins with sports director Neil Stephens explaining the team is looking to hit the ground running.
"We are going in with really high hopes of pulling off a stage win," said Stephens. "We have some handy bike riders, really strong guys. We've got a lot of firepower for this race. These guys can be really, really powerful in the first road stages."
"We aren't going in with any real major climbers and that helps to strengthen up the team we have for the early stages."
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Matthews hasn't raced since La Flèche Wallonne, when he placed 21st, and will start just his second stage race of the season following Paris-Nice where he won the prologue, stage 2 and the points classification.
"The first possible stage win is right from the get go, I'm really sure Matthews can give the prologue a good hit out," Stephens said of the 25-year-old. "He's been working really well at altitude and has been working with his time trial bike over the last couple of weeks.
"He's really keen to do well, as all the guys are but he's proven in the past when he sets an objective to go well in a prologue he can pull it off as he did in Paris-Nice."
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