The Trek-Segafredo team have begun announcing their nine-rider team for this year's 2016 Tour de France via Twitter. They revealed the first three riders on Saturday that include climbers Bauke Mollema and Peter Stetina, and Classics specialist Jasper Stuyven.
Mollema will lead the team’s general classification aspirations at this year’s Tour, as he looks to crack the top three overall in Paris. The Dutch rider has been a contender in the Grand Tours during his career. Last year he was seventh at the Tour, but he was also tenth in 2014 and sixth in 2013. He has also placed fourth overall at the Vuelta a España (2011) and 12th at the Giro d’Italia (2010).
I'm ready for my 6th Tour de France! Our fans announce the team: follow @TrekSegafredo for the other 8 names! https://t.co/gkIlb9p8iT
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— Bauke Mollema (@BaukeMollema) June 25, 2016
He will rely on help from fellow climber Stetina, who recently showed his progress in form at the Amgen Tour of California in May, where he started the race as the team's GC leader and was second on the queen stage summit finish on Gibraltar Rd.
The American came back from a serious leg injury sustained in a crash at País Vasco last year when he hit a street bollard that wasn’t marked on the race course. It has taken a year of rehabilitation for him to get back to top form and he is still looking to improve on that before the start of the Tour de France.
1 year ago I was watching on TV while learning to walk again. Next week I race @LeTour! #comeback #neversettle
— Peter Stetina (@peterstetina) June 25, 2016
— Jasper Stuyven (@Jasperstuyven) June 25, 2016
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