Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team) is set to make his season debut at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana on Wednesday as his team take aim at the Spanish race and, in particular, the stage 3 team time trial.
The American squad were unable to keep their status as world champions in the discipline after being beaten by Team Sunweb in Bergen in September, and will look for redemption in the race in addition to going for stage wins with Van Avermaet.
"We have a tradition in this team to target the team time trial so that is one of our objectives at the race and, like last year, we want to win," directeur sportif Valerio Piva said in a press release. "It's the third stage and it's a technical parcours.
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"We also want to win an individual stage and for this we have Greg Van Avermaet, who is our road captain, as well as Jürgen Roelandts for a sprint finish."
Van Avermaet, the number one-ranked rider in the world last season, is ready to put a solid off-season of training to the test.
"I'm feeling pretty good and I'm happy with my winter. We have trained hard in Spain before the race so I'm happy to finally put my training efforts to the test in the race," Van Avermaet said. "Everybody always looks forward to the first race of the season. We are motivated again for the team time trial, which we won last year, as it's a nice way to start the season. The parcours is a little different from last year but I think we are one of the favourites there."
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