Luke Rowe (Team Sky) will once again look to balance his ambitions in the Classics with the demands of supporting Chris Froome at the Tour de France in 2017.
The 26-year-old is currently competing at the Tour Down Under, where he is supporting Sergio Henao's podium ambitions and building his own form ahead of the spring classics where he will be hunting his own chance to lead Team Sky.
"I pretty much know my whole race program for the year, we've split it into two big goals. First and foremost it's the cobbled classics, that's where my passion is and the races I love to go and perform in. Flanders and Roubaix are obviously the big ones for me, but there are five or six big races I'll be aiming for leading up to them," Rowe told the press at the Tour Down Under.
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Rowe will spend roughly a month in Australia, and will cap the trip by linking up with Froome at the Herald Sun Tour. Froome won the race in 2016 and will make his 2017 competitive debut there for the second year running.
"After the last race in Australia, Sun Tour, I'll be looking to Nieuwsblad and Kuurne full gas and hit the ground running. So from now, I'm just building to that first block of the cobbled classics and then after that it'll be a complete role reversal turning into a domestique for Froome at the Tour."
Rowe has been a vital cog on Froome's Tour de France squad for the last two years and he will once again suit up as Froome looks to win his fourth title in five years.
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