Team Picnic PostNL coach Joey van Rhee: “The organisers have changed the route ever so slightly for this year. From start until over halfway into the race way we have quite a lot of climbing kilometres that will make the race hard and put some fatigue in the legs. Then in the final there are also now two ascents of the short but steep Mammolshain climb that can possibly decide the race, and we’ve seen groups go here in the past. In the squad we have someone like Bjorn as a potential finisher, who is suited to these type of efforts, and if he can be part of a select group of riders then we can go for a result come the line. We are looking forward to the race.”