SUNWEB GIANT

With most of the climbing team focused on the Giro and Tom Dumoulin’s GC win, Warren

Barguil is left to plough a lonely furrow at his home race, where he’ll want to improve on his career-best 14th overall two years ago, or rediscover the attacking instinct that brought him two stage wins at the 2013 Vuelta. However, his build-up has been hindered by a hip fracture. Sunweb will look to star signing Michael Matthews for a repeat of his stage win last year. In Revel, the Australian outsprinted rivals Peter Sagan, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Greg Van Avermaet, though he had tactical support from the two other Orica riders who’d made the initial break of 15. Will Sunweb have the tactical nous to give him the same kind of help this year?

TOUR PALMARÈS

Had its irst run-out at the Tour as SkilShimano in 2009, where it was break fodder and didn’t make an impact. Annual attendees since 2012, as Argos, then Giant. Dominated the sprints in ’13 and ’14 with Marcel Kittel. Yet to inish in the top 10 overall: 14th is its best yet.