The Trek-Segafredo team come into the 2016 Tour de France with several goals and protected riders but Bauke Mollema will be expected to again fight for the American team’s overall classification hopes in the mountains and all the way to Paris.
Mollema can count on the support of Peter Stetina and veteran Frank Schleck in the mountains, with Schleck an experienced road captain. Also in the team are Markel Irizar, Gregory Rast, Haimar Zubeldia, and talented debutants Jasper Stuyven and Edward Theuns.
This year’s Tour is Fabian Cancellara’s final Grande Boucle but he already seems bored with questions about a long farewell, knowing that every Grand Tour is actually three weeks of tense racing and suffering. Last year Cancellara pulled on the yellow jersey after the second stage but then crashed hard on stage three and had to quit the race.
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“It’s not a farewell race, I’m looking for results, so it’s business as usual. It’s nothing special,” Cancellara said with a shrug.
“For Theuns and Stuyven it’s their first Tour and so it’s a big thing. I know what the future is bringing, so I’m relaxed and I’m looking forward to the next few months. I just hope to stay healthy, to enjoy some nice things again but also not to finish on the ground again. I hope that doesn’t happen this year, I want to enjoy the race.
"But it’s going to be hectic. We have no prologue but instead a different opening. But when we see where we are, with the weather, you never know what is coming.”
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