Italian duo Fabio Aru and Vincenzo Nibali will lead the Astana challenge at the Tour de France next month.
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Aru and Nibali lead Astana Tour de France team
Italian duo Fabio Aru and Vincenzo Nibali will lead the Astana challenge at the Tour de France next month.
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Vuelta a Espana champion Aru will make his Tour debut, while Nibali, the 2014 winner of the most prestigious Grand Tour race, has also been named in a nine-man team.
Nibali revealed that preparing for the Rio Olympics in August is his priority, so the Giro d'Italia champion will play a support role to his compatriot in the race, which starts at the foot of the Mont-Saint-Michel on July 2.
Aru won a stage in the Criterium du Dauphine this year, but that is the 25-year-old's only success in 2016 and the onus will be on him to make his presence felt.
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Jakob Fuglsang, Tanel Kangert, Alexey Lutsenko and Luis Leon Sanchez have also been selected along with Diego Rosa, Andriy Grivko and Paolo Tiralongo.
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