Tom Dumoulin will lead Giant-Alpecin at the Tour de Romandie.
The Swiss six-stage race features two-time trials, two transition stages, and two mountain top finishes. The 70th edition kicks off with a short, 3.95km prologue in La Chaux-de-Fonds on the Tuesday, with the first chance for the sprinters already on stage 1. Followed by an uphill finish atMorgins on day three and a 15km individual time trial on a challenging course at Sion. Stage 4 will be the queen stage to decide the general classification, before concluding a road stage in Geneva to round off the week of racing.
Coach Arthur van Dongen confirmed the objectives for the Tour de Romandie, saying: "We have two main goals for this race; to go for a stage victory with Tom [Dumoulin] in either the prologue or the time trial, and to focus on the general classification with him.
"The 2016 edition parcours is very demanding and I am expecting a hard race. It will be very important to finish preparing the form of the guys before the start of the Giro d'Italia. We have a balanced team and the experienced Johannes [Fröhlinger] will be our road captain and he will be helping to guide the team in the different scenarios that present themselves."
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Tom Dumoulin (NED)
Johannes Fröhlinger (GER)
Chad Haga (USA)
Cheng Ji (CHN)
Tobias Ludvigsson (SWE)
Georg Preidler (AUT)
Tom Stamsnijder (NED)
Albert Timmer (NED)
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