Nibali and Mollema confirmed for Giro-Tour double as Trek-Segafredo reveal their programs for 2021

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Trek-Segafredo have verified their team leaders’ major plans for 2021, with Vincenzo Nibali and Bauke Mollema to trip the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France, when Giulio Ciccone will be part of them in Italy in May right before major at the Vuelta a España.

Previous planet winner Mads Pedersen and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad winner Jasper Stuyven will guide Trek-Segafredo in the spring Classics and then sign up for Nibali and Mollema in the 8-rider Tour squad to chase stage victories.

Trek-Segafredo men’s and women’s teams have gathered in Denia, Spain for a pre-season education camp that will previous until finally January 25. The men’s workforce will reveal a lot more about their ambitions and ambitions for the 2021 time afterwards on Monday.  

Nibali gained the Giro in 2013 and 2016 but struggled to compete against his younger rivals past October, ending seventh in general driving winner Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers). Even so, his mentor Paolo Slogo is convinced Nibali can nonetheless be competitive in Grand Tours all through a regular period.

Mollema and Ciccone will share leadership with Nibali at the 2021 Giro, having the force off the Sicilian. Nibali is then anticipated to target phase victories at the Tour prior to main Italy at the Tokyo Olympics. His agreement with Trek-Segafredo ends in 2021 but he is keen to race one particular ultimate season. He has been joined to with a transfer to Ineos but he could also stop his occupation at Trek-Segafredo.  

The 34-calendar year-old Mollema fractured his wrist in a crash through phase 13 of the 2020 Tour, with surgical treatment ending his year early. The workforce mentioned he will glance to incorporate a Giro stage win to his earlier successes at the Tour and Vuelta, before he joins Nibali at the Tour. 

Mollema finished fifth at the 2019 Giro and his regularity has seen him finish in the leading 10 3 occasions at the Tour de France. He is also most likely to be part of the Netherlands team for the hilly road race at the Tokyo Olympics        

Ciccone struggled at the 2020 Giro following recovering from COVID-19 just ahead of the race but he could be Trek-Segafredo’s finest rider for the normal classification in 2021 if Nibali and Mollema choose for stage victories. The 26-year-aged has received two levels for the duration of 6 appearances at his property Grand Tour, and he received the climber’s competitiveness in 2019 even though supporting Nibali. 

Trek-Segafredo confirmed that Ciccone will be supplied a very clear management role for the Vuelta.

In the cobbled Classics, Jasper Stuyven and Mads Pedersen will guide a potent squad that also incorporates Quinn Simmons, Edward Theuns and professional domestiques Kiel Reijnen and Koen de Kort.    

Pedersen won Gent-Wevelgem in Oct with a clever experience that saw him outmanoeuvre rivals Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert, when Stuyven impressed in the spring by successful Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

They have been included in Trek-Segafredo’s provisional workforce for the Tour de France, leaving four areas on the 8-rider line-up to be verified nearer the race.