Busy week for Astana

Vladimir Gusev, who broke his right collar bone in the sixth stage of the Tour of California on February 24 will return to competition in the Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale. He and his team-mates will be busy racing over the next weekend days in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Astana for Ronde van het Groene Hart on March 23: Koen de Kort, René Haselbacher, Sergei Ivanov, Benoît Joachim, Aaron Kemps, Berik Kupeshov, Michael Schär, Tomas Vaitkus under DS Viatcheslav Ekimov