Just a few days after the Tour de France reached Paris, Bahrain Victorious are back racing at the 79th Tour de Pologne, which gets underway tomorrow in Kielce.
The route is designed to attract both climbers and classics specialists, and the team aims to go one better than last year when Matej Mohoric finished second overall.
The first two days should provide opportunities for the sprinters, but they include four categorised climbs, and stage 1 ends with a long uphill drag to the line in Lublin.
Leading Bahrain Victorious is Spaniard Pello Bilbao, already a double stage winner this season and a top five finisher in his last three races.
Supporting Pello in the mountains will be Stevie Williams and Edoardo Zambanini, both of whom have the potential to perform well on GC themselves.
The other members are Phil Bauhaus, Australian Heinrich Haussler, Filip Maciejuk and Jonathan Milan, who is returning to action also on road after a successful track campaign with the Polish national team.
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