Cheng Ji to make history on Giant-Shimano Tour de France squad

Team Giant-Shimano today announced its final roster for the 2014 Tour de France, with its German sprinters Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb taking center stage. The team is focused almost entirely on stage victories, with its powerful lead-out squads selected for both pure sprint stages for Kittel and "power sprints" on the more difficult finales for Degenkolb.

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