Of course, Romain Bardet will not be at the start of Tour de France This year, he who retired at the end of the Dauphiné criteriumbut his team Picnic will still have beautiful cards to play on The Grande Boucle. Began Oscar Onleyrecent 3rd in Switzerland Tourwhich will aim for a stage victory. The Frenchman Warren Barguil, double stage winner and polka dot jersey in 2017, will also be present. On the sprint side, the Dutch stable will bet on Tobias Lund Andresen in the absence of Fabio Jakobsen. Frank van den Broek, Naberman Team, Sean Flynn, Pavel Bittner et Niklas Magll Complete this selection.
Video – Oscar Onley, impressive on the Tour de Switzerland
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“Take off stage victories”
“We approach the Tour de France with very good memories of last year's campaign”said Matt Winstonsports director of Team Picnic PostNL. “We have a team that has shown during the last races that it worked collectively and that it obtained very good results on the way, so we start the race with confidence. Our main objective will be to win stage victories. Oscar has recently shown on the Tour de Switzerland that it was in great shape with very good results, it will therefore be one of our main playing cards on the hilly and mountainous stages. For the more rolling and intermediate stages. Also left the Tour of Switzerland in good condition, which gives us options at this level. Some for the others and for our objectives, so I am convinced that we can go and find good results throughout the race and cross the line in Paris with a head high. “
