The Grand Départ returns to France this year with a start in Lille just under one week away, as Team Picnic PostNL today announce their eight-rider roster that is set to take on the wide variety of parcours on offer over the three weeks as they hunt stage success.
Looking to replicate their strong showing at the Giro d’Italia, Team Picnic PostNL head to the Tour de France with confidence after good recent performances; ready to show their colours at the head of the race over three weeks.
Team Picnic PostNL coach Matt Winston explained: “We head to the Tour de France with some great memories from last year’s campaign. We have a squad that has shown in recent races that they are performing well together as a group and picking up some really solid results along the way – so start the race with confidence. Our main goal for the race will be to hunt for stage success. Oscar showed recently at the Tour de Suisse that he is in great shape with some top results, so he will be one of our main finishing cards to play for the hilly and mountainous days. For those more rolling and intermediate type stages, Warren and Frank came out of Tour de Suisse in good shape too, so they provide us options there. In the faster finales we have two good options in both Tobias and Pavel, who with the support we have here, can be in the mix on different types of stages. Overall, we will take each stage as it comes and look for the opportunities that might suit us best over the course of the three weeks. If we continue to work well as a team, commit to each other and our objectives, then I am confident that we can contest for good results throughout the race, and hold our heads high as we cross the line in Paris.”
Tobias Lund Andresen
TOBIAS LUND ANDRESEN
Warren Barguil
WARREN BARGUIL
Pavel Bittner
PAVEL BITTNER
Frank van den Broek
FRANK VAN DEN BROEK
Sean Flynn
SEAN FLYNN
Niklas Märkl
NIKLAS MÄRKL
Tim Naberman
TIM NABERMAN
Oscar Onley
OSCAR ONLEY
