There was pleasure in a number of locations earlier than staff supervisor Thor Hushovd offered his picks at Ensjø in Oslo.
Together with Kristoff and Cort, the selection fell on Søren Wærenskjold, Jonas Abrahamsen, Rasmus Fossum Tiller, Johannes Kulset, Odd Christian Eiking and Tobias Halland Johannessen.
Halland Johannessen and Kulset are one of the best climbers on the Uno-X staff and will likely be in search of alternatives to win within the mountains within the Tour. On the identical time, the duo are scuffling with accidents and final week they made a aggressive return in Slovenia round to doc their type.
They clearly did that rather a lot.
Kulset was controversially disqualified in Slovenia and needed to involuntarily retire from the race. Nevertheless, the 20-year-old is prepared for the largest activity of his profession to this point.
– It was a tough course of to construct this staff, as a result of we try this very properly through the day. It is actually nice, however it additionally means somebody has to remain at residence, staff supervisor Hushovd stated on Monday.
4 with professional abilities
Cort, Kristoff, Wærenskjold and Abrahamsen have received races this season, the latter for the primary time in his profession at skilled degree. So the quartet had been self-signed in Monday’s lottery.
Kristoff is prepared for his eleventh Tour de France.
So the opposite 4 locations had been extra unsure.
Andreas Leknessund, who together with Cort was the primary signing of the Uno-X staff earlier than the present season, didn’t ship one of the best Tour de France bid through the current Citerium de Dauphine race in France. This created some uncertainty concerning the type of the Tromsøværing. On Monday it was destroyed.
Odd Christian Eiking got here in from Bergen.
On the identical time, Leknessund has beforehand proven a sky-high degree, additionally at Grand Tour degree in biking. Final yr he completed eighth within the Giro d’Italia and actually put himself on the worldwide map.
An uncommon ending
Uno-X arrives firstly of the Tour de France in Florence with a crew able to attaining stage wins on each flat and hilly phases. You hardly need to have joint ambitions.
– The intention is to win a stage, and I’m certain it’s potential, stated Hushovd.
That is the second yr in a row that the Norwegian staff takes half within the largest biking race on this planet. The start a yr in the past was greater than constructive. Led by Tobias, amongst others Halland Johannessen and Abrahamsen, the consequence was a sequence of sturdy stage outcomes.
Nevertheless, the specified victory nonetheless awaits.
The Tour de France will begin in Florence on Saturday 29 June. The race ends on Sunday 21 July in Good.
The standard end on the Champs-Élysées in Paris isn’t a part of the race this time. The rationale for that is that the Summer time Olympics will happen within the French capital only a few days after the Tour ends.