Michael Matthews and his lead-out train dominate Team Sunweb's Tour de France team, which was announced on Wednesday, while Warren Barguil and Laurens ten Dam will chase stage victories in the high mountains.
As had already long been confirmed, there is no place in the team for Giro d’Italia winner Tom Dumoulin, who is instead expected to target the Vuelta a España and World Championships time trial later in the season.
Matthews was a stage winner at last year’s Tour and lines up for this year’s race as arguably the most realistic challenger to Peter Sagan’s longstanding dominance of the points classification.
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The Australian joined Sunweb from Orica-Scott at the beginning of this season and enjoyed a consistent spring campaign, which included a fine fourth place at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He underlined his pre-Tour form with a stage win at last week’s Tour de Suisse, and he will set out from Düsseldorf on July 1 with the initial target of landing a stage victory.
Matthews will be able to rely on the support of lead-out man Nikias Arndt, as well as Ramon Sinkeldam, Mike Teunissen, Albert Timmer and Roy Curvers on the flat stages.
“Our nine-rider line-up has been created with the team's overall goal of stage results at the forefront of our mind,” said Sunweb coach Aike Visbeek. “We have selected a strong group of riders to form the lead-out train for Michael on the sprint stages with a difficult finale. The recent racing campaign was a pinpoint on our year plan to work on optimising our lead-out.”
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