Brian Holm will join forces with Marcel Kittel. The Etixx-Quick Step sports director has explained that the German is still one of the best sprinters in the peloton and he will do wverything to help him to return to the top of his game after a 2015 season plagued by illness.

"That will be the task," Holm told CyclingQuotes. "And we will try to make a race program so that he comes good in time again. If he is not on top, he should not race. We will take care of him. Kittel should not have raced when he was ill, and it destroyed him. If he comes back after his virus, it will be exciting."

Holm is confident thatMarcel Kittel will again take a lot of wins. "He has something that others do not have. He is a winner and he has an extra gear, so there are not many who can follow him. With his history of Tour stage wins when he is on top, I can't see any reason not to race for him," Holm added.