Teams announce line-ups for the week

Team Quick Step is sending its riders in various directions this week, with Paolo Bettini leading the Italian group and Tom Boonen the Netherlands group. Bettini, Davide Malacarne, Dmitry Grabovskiy, Alessandro Proni, Leonardo Scarselli, Kevin Seeldraeyers, Matteo Tosatto and Giovanni Visconti will ride the Tre Valli Varesine. The riders wuill face 198 kilometres around Varese, Italy, on Tuesday, August 19.

On the next day, Malacarne, Grabovsky, Proni, Scarselli, Tossatto and Visconti will be joined by Alexander Efimkin, and Davide Vigano for the Coppa Agostini, 194 km starting and ending in Lissone, Italy.