Voeckler has already placed Colnago on the winner’s podium at Bèsseges and the Tour du Haut Var and hopes to win a stage at Paris-Nice as well as fight for a strong posi­tion in the over­all classification.

“I am sat­is­fied with the start of my sea­son. I’ve put in a lot of hard work, but I am still not in top con­di­tion. I think I can become even stronger,” the French national cham­pion said. “I am very moti­vated for Paris-Nice, but I am also real­is­tic. The time trial is a hand­i­cap against me. I don’t have a spe­cific stage in mind, but I’ve been twice sec­ond, so I would like to win one. It’s Paris-Nice, so it’s very wide open.”

Voeckler will later take aim at the Tour of Flanders, a race he says he admires: “I really love that race, but the only prob­lem is I don’t like the rain. It would be pre­ten­tious to say that I could try to win, because I’ve never really done well in this type of race, but I am very motivated.”

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