After having said earlier in 2016 that he would like to target Milan-Sanremo, but that 2016 would not be the year to do it, Marcel Kittel and Etixx-QuickStep may just have decided to change their minds.

“We will see how he goes here at Paris-Nice, especially on the third day,” Etixx sport director Tom Steels told VeloNews. “We will see how he climbs. We will see. Usually the selection is made a few days after Tirreno-Adriatico,” Steels said “Now from the UCI, we have 72 hours, so we can still change it in the last minute.”

Steels and co were denied the chance to see how their sprinter went, as today’s stage three was cancelled due to heavy snow lying on the roads of France.

Regardless of whether or not the German takes the start of his first Monument a week on Sunday, Steels says the big goal for Kittel is the Giro and Tour before he tries to win road race goal for Germany at the Worlds in Qatar.

“It’s been our planning at the beginning of the year, and it’s very important for him to win stages again in the big tours, in the Tour de France, and to get his confidence back,” Steels said. “I don’t see any doubt about it, as he’s going very good right now.”