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.