UAE Team Emirates confirmed its squad for the first WorldTour edition of the Presidential Tour of Turkey, set to begin on October 10 in Alanya. Diego Ulissi and Darwin Atapuma will lead the team with an eye on the uphill finish in Selçuc, the usual decisive stage of the event.
Simone Consonni, Marko Kump, Vegard Stake Laengen, Przemyslaw Niemiec, Edward Ravasi and Federico Zurlo round out the squad.
"The Tour of Turkey has always been a hard-fought race and this year it became a World Tour event, so there will definitely be a higher level of competition," team director Bruno Vicino said. "The fourth stage with an uphill arrival in Selçuc will be critical for the general classification, but we shouldn't underestimate the fifth stage with arrival in Izmir: Atapuma and Ulissi, with some support from Ravasi and Niemiec, could grab the spotlight here.
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"In the stages with a simpler profile, we will give Consonni and Kump some room, with Laengen and Zurlo ready to jump on any chance to break away."
Ulissi, the winner of the GP de Montreal, has racked up a string of top results in the late season, coming second in the Memorial Marco Pantani, and fourth in the Coppa Sabatini and Tre Valli Varesine.
"I'll be participating in the Tour of Turkey for the second time in my career; I've only ridden in the 2010 edition," Ulissi said. "I'm glad to be returning to Turkey, especially to mark the race becoming a part of the World Tour circuit. I'm in good form in this end of season; I hope this will help me be competitive in the more demanding stages."
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