Despite being one of the strongest teams at the Tour de France in 2015, winning the all-important team time trial, BMC general manager Jim Ochowicz says he thinks the 2016 course suits his team even better than this year’s did.

"I think it’s a good course for our team because it looks like it’s not going to start out too mountainous and we are going to get some flat stages, crosswinds - we like those types of races," he said at the route presentation in Paris on Tuesday.

"They’ll be sprint finishes but they’re good for splitting up the peloton and we can fight along the way and maybe gain some time. You don’t know but it looks good with a fast start then hitting the mountains directly in the Pyrenees which seems like it's one hard stage after another for the first ten days."

Ochowicz will likely send Tejay van Garderen and Richie Porte to the race for the GC, and Greg Van Avermaet will look to repeat his stage win from this year’s edition.