Tuesday 29th of April, Tinkoff-Saxo will be on the start ramp for the Swiss stage race, Tour de Romandie. A 5.5 kilometer long and flat prologue gets the race going and is followed by four rather mountainous stages before the race is concluded with an 18 kilometer long individual time trial.

 

Tinkoff-Saxo’s line-up: Nicolas Roche, Rafal Majka, Evgeny Petrov, Pawel Poljanski, Oliver Zaugg, Jay McCarthy, Ivan Rovny and Edward Beltran.

 

“Having been on team training camp near Etna on Sicily, my form is coming along nicely," Roche says. "We’ve all been working really hard over the past 4 weeks and I think it’s finally starting to show. It’s been an important camp in terms of preparing for the Giro and hopefully, Tour de Romandie will brush off my condition so I’ll be ready. I feel ready and that's a good start."