Team Barloworld is set for a Tuscan weekend of racing at the Gran Premio Industria e Artigianato on Saturday April 29 and then the Giro della Toscana on Sunday April 30. After the Ardennes classics in Belgium and the Giro dell’Appennino in Italy on Sunday, Danish directeur sportif Christiaan Andersen will have a strong combined team available for the two races made up with the following riders: Pedro Arreitunandia, Felix Cardenas, Gianpaolo Cheula, Ryan Cox, Mads Christensen, Tiaan Kannemeyer, Tom Southam and Amets Txurruka.
A good performance is expected from the talented South African climber Ryan Cox. He is now close to his best performance yet, after racing with his national team at the start of the season and showed his ability with an solid performance at Liege-Bastogne-Liege, where rode in the early breakaway for much of the day and finished 97th.
