Deceuninck – Quick-Step Floors Cycling Team (France) - Press Release: World Champion Julian Alaphilippe, Ronde van Vlaanderen victor Kasper Asgreen and 30-time stage winner Mark Cavendish headline our squad for the 108th edition.

More than 40 stage victories, almost 30 days in the yellow jersey and 8 secondary classification wins – our team has a long and beautiful history with the Tour de France, which we will look to enhance between 26 June and 18 July. The race will start from Bretagne for the fifth time in history – after 1952, 1964, 1974 and 2008 – and will conclude once again in Paris, in between scheduling three summit finishes, 58 kilometers of individual time trial and plenty of stages that will give chances to the sprinters, puncheurs and baroudeurs.

One of the riders who have already left an indelible mark on the Tour de France, Julian Alaphilippe will return to the start hoping to animate again the race and show the same attacking style and panache that have captured the fans’ hearts two years ago, when he led the general classification for an astonishing 14 days. The 29-year-old will have extra motivation, as this time he will race clad in the rainbow jersey he conquered last September in Imola.