Savoldelli, winner of last year's Giro d'Italia, should also offer a capable sidekick, if not alternative.
He already looks in good form and was regularly in the top 10 in the Giro d'Italia sprints.
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The police raids on the Giro d'Italia at San Remo on 6 June was another "D-Day" for the sport.
The Warriors will look like pro cyclists, ready for the Giro d'Italia.
"I've won two stages at the Giro d'Italia and the under-23 world championships, but this is the biggest win of my career, " said Arvesen.
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Simoni has plenty to prove and both he and his team should be fresh despite the Giro d'Italia, where he sealed an excellent win.
It remains to be seen whether he can pose a similar threat having battled it out to win the Giro d'Italia back in May.
Armstrong's team has two changes from last year, with last month's Giro d'Italia winner Paolo Salvodelli and Tour of Catalonia winner Yaroslav Popovych coming in.
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Mr Gonzalez, meanwhile, believes that seeing an all-Colombian team at the Giro d'Italia could do for new generations what Cafe de Colombia did two decades ago.
His Astana teammate Lance Armstrong is currently recovering from a broken collarbone before heading to the Giro d'Italia which Contador will skip despite being defending champion.
Sastre, who now rides for the newly-formed Cervelo team, has enjoyed a solid year and put in a strong display to finish fourth in May's Giro d'Italia.
Away from the main event and a host of other contenders, including Danilo di Luca and Giro d'Italia winner Damiano Cunego, there will be plenty of other action.
Won a stage of the prestigious Giro d'Italia last year.
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Last weekend Garmin-Barracuda veteran Ryder Hesjedal secured the team's most significant victory ever: winning the Giro d'Italia, the three-week stage race second only to the Tour de France in prestige.
Giro d'Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda) finished one second adrift of Evans, the same time as Italian Vincenzo Nibali, rated by many as the main rival to Wiggins and Evans.
The Giro d'Italia is the first of the three major tours to take place, with the Tour de France starting in July ahead of the Tour of Spain in September.
Shrugging aside his disappointment, Contador showed his class by winning both the Tour of Spain and Giro d'Italia, joining a select band of riders to win all three major stage races.
The suspension, which is backdated, will run until 6 August and will prevent him from competing in the 2012 Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, cycling's second-most important stage race.
It was Farrar's fourth stage win in one of the three major Tours, after two stage victories in the Giro d'Italia this year and one in the Tour of Spain in 2009.
But he was also a superb rider, winning a remarkable 191 races, including a record 42 stages in the Giro d'Italia, and he has lost nothing of his natural self-confidence and penchant for the sound-bite.
In the end, the sprint was a formality for Cavendish but, with the breakaway group finishing 41 seconds ahead of the peloton, Armstrong proved the big winner, gaining time on all his rivals including Astana team-mate and 2007 Tour winner Alberto Contador, defending champion Carlos Sastre and Giro d'Italia winner Denis Menchov.
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