While Davide Rebellin's fourth place at last Sunday's Amstel Gold was not exactly a failure, it did mean he was not going to begin another triplet of weeks like he did the previous year.
However, the 33 year-old Italian is in good shape, and will have the following team to support him as defending champion at today's La Flèche Wallonne: Andrew Moletta, Ronny Scholz, Fabian Wegmann, Markus Zberg, Markus Fothen, Marco Serpellini, and Beat Zberg. Christian Henn will be directeur-sportif.
