Ag2r splits for early season

The Ag2r Prevoyance team will split into two parts for January, as it begins its first season as a ProTour team. Eight riders will travel to Australia between January 8 and 24 to contest the Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under in Adelaide, as follows:

José Luis Arrieta, Sylvain Calzati, Cyril Dessel, Samuel Dumoulin, Simon Gerrans, Yuriy Krivtsov, Ludovic Turpin, Alexandre Usov. Trainer: Gilles Mas

The larger part of the team will take part in a training camp in l'Isle sur la Sorgue in Vaucluse, in the south of France, between January 5 and 14. The 20 riders will train between 60 and 180 kilometres a day, under the direction of Vincent Lavenu, Julien Jurdie and Arturas Kasputis:

Mikel Astarloza, Iñigo Chaurreau, Philip Deignan, Renaud Dion, Hubert Dupont, Stéphane Goubert, Julien Loubet, Francisco Mancebo, Laurent Mangel, Lloyd Mondory, Christophe Moreau, Carl Naibo, David Navas, Jean-Patrick Nazon, Erki Putsep, Christophe Riblon, Mark Scanlon, Tomas Vaitkus, John Gadret. Stéphane Poulhies will also take part as a stagiaire.