Supporting the experienced Frenchman will be 29-year-old
Bruno Armirail, a stage winner of the Giro d'Italia from all the way back in 2009, Ignatas Konovalovas, former world time-trial championship runner-up Stefan Kung and his fellow Swiss Fabian Lienhard, plus the 33-year-old
Rudy Molard, Jake Stewart in just his second career Grand Tour and Lars van den Berg.
Thibaut Pinot, Bruno Armirail, Ignatas Konovalovas,
Fabian Lienhard, Rudy Molard,
Jake Stewart, Stefan Kung and Lars van den Berg.