Team Saxo Bank, Team Lotto-Belisol and Team Sky Procycling announced their final squad for Paris-Nice 2012
The 70th edition of the French race, Paris-Nice is scheduled on March 4, 2012, and most of the teams have finalised their best riders for the event.
A total number of 22 teams are invited at the eight-day race and three World Tour teams have already finalised their top men for “the race to the sun”.
Team Saxo Bank: Michael Morkov, Daniel Navarro, Nick Nuyens, Jonas Aaen, Juan Jose Haedo, Kasper Klostergaard, Karsten Kroon and Jaroslaw Marycz.
Team Lotto-Belisol: Lars Bak, Bart De Clercq, Greg Henderson, Olivier Kaisen, Gianni Meersman, Maarten Neyens Bak, Gaetan Bille and Adam Hansen.
Team Sky Procycling: Richie Porte, Kanstantsin Siutsou, Geraint Thomas, Rigoberto Uran, Chris Froome, Christian Knees, Danny Pate and Bradley Wiggins.
Nick Nuyens secured the most recent version of the Tour of Flanders and the Belgian will lead the Danish side, Team Saxo Bank at the race. He will be supported by team-mates Daniel Navarro and Juan Jose Haedo.
Bradley Wiggins will steer Team Sky during the French stage race and he is optimistic to climb the podium considering the current form of the British team.
Teamsky.com quoted him as saying, "It's the first big WorldTour race of the season in Europe and we'll just look to continue the momentum - that's the goal. It's great to be part of it and I'm just looking forward to Paris-Nice now and my next few races after that".
David Brailsford’s squad had a terrific start to its 2012 season.
The team grabbed as many as five stage wins, three overall, one sprint classifications, one point’s classification and one team’s classifications victory in the season already.
Bradley noted, “Everything about this team is just snowballing and getting better and better, race after race. We're becoming more consistent too, it's more of a habit now”.
He briefed that the new signings for the 2012 have clearly made it one of the strongest World Tour team of the season.
Wiggins helped the side with his third overall finish at the Volta ao Algarve 2012 and also bagged the fifth stage of the race.
He is now targeting the Paris-Nice and only time will tell if the 31-year-old still has legs for one of the toughest stage race of the season as he will be challenged by a number of top cyclists at the event.
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