Defending champion Bauke Mollema at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Novo Nordisk (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Taylor Phinney (BMC) making his own mark on the at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Mathew Hayman (Orica-BikeExchange) at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Xabier Zandido Echaide at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Team Sky at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Oscar Pujol Munzo at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Sho Hatsuyama at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Javier Megias (Novo Nordisk) at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Trek-Segafredo at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Fabian Cancellara speaks to the press at the 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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BMC Racing at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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BMC Racing at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Damiano Cunego at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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ORica-BikeExchange at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Fabian Cancellara waves goodbye at the at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Trek-Segafredo at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Damiano Cunego (Nippo-Vini Fantini) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Lars Petter Nordhaug (Team Sky) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Alex Peters (Team Sky) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Christian Meier (Orica-BikeExchange) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Yukiya Arashiro (Lampre-Merida) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Lampre-Merida Cannondale-Drapac at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Cannondale-Drapac at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Cannondale-Drapac at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Jasper Stuyven at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Edvald Boasson Hagen at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Edvald Boasson Hagen at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Theo Bos at 2016 Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Fabian Cancellara (Trek-Segafredo) at Japan Cup team presentation (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Organisers of the Japan Cup presented teams on stage for what is set as one of the final UCI events of the season. Those presented on stage were Trek-Segafredo's defending champion Bauke Mollema and soon-to-be-retired Fabian Cancellara.
The weekend will start with a criterium on Saturday, October 22 and finish with the UCI 1.HC road race on Sunday, October 23. Last year, Mollema won the road race after he outpaced Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) and Yukiya Arashiro (Japan National Team) at the end of a selective 144.2-kilometre route, which was based on the 1990 World Championships course.
View the gallery above of the team presentation ahead of the event.
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