French WorldTour team AG2R-La Mondiale have confirmed the racing programme of its 2017 team for the first two-and-half months of the new season that will see it start the year in Australia at the Tour Down Under. Romain Bardet's previously announced race programme remains unchanged with the Frenchman to debut at La Méditerranéenne in early February.
AG2R-La Mondiale will race the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, elevated to the WorldTour from 2017, for the first next season with the same squad it sending to the Tour Down Under. The January 29 date for the Australian one-day race is also the same day it starts its European season at the GP Marseillaise where new signing Alexandre Geniez makes his debut with the team.
Italian climber Domenico Pozzovivo is confirmed to again start his season in Australia where leads the team alongside Jan Bakelants. Frenchman Clément Chevrier will be making his AG2R-La Mondiale and Australian racing debut with the team with Julien Bérard, Francois Bidard, Ben Gastauer, and Matteo Montaguti rounding out the squad.
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Nans Peters will be the sole new signing to debut at the French Etoile de Bessèges stage race in early-February.
Sondre Holst Enger and Mathias Frank also make their AG2R-La Mondiale debuts on French soil in February at La Méditerranéenne with fellow new signing. Oliver Naesen to start his season a week later at Tour du Haut Var. Classics specialist Stijn Vandenbergh makes his AG2R-La Mondiale debut at the Tour of Qatar where Julien Duval and Rudy Barbier will also make their first appearance in the blue and white kit.
With its teams confirmed for its first nine races of the season up to the Abu Dhabi Tour, AG2R-La Mondiale also announced the first riders for the opening weekend of the classics at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (February 25) and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne (February 26).
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