Team dsm-firmenich PostNL coach Kelvin Dekker: “We’re looking forward to travelling to Italy for the second Grand Tour of the season with this exciting squad. Our objective for the race is clear, with Juliette as our finisher for the GC battle, and we’re confident that the team we have here can support her in the best possible way for us to achieve our goals together. We have really good memories of this race from last year with our second place overall, so we have once again made this one of our target goals for the season. However, we will need to keep the focus on where our strength lies, and that is displaying some brilliant teamwork throughout the race so that we can keep each other in the fight every day. We’re looking forward to getting underway and showing our team colours out on the road.”