The star trio of Esteban Chaves, Adam Yates and Simon Yates will headline Mitchelton-Scott`s roster at the Volta a Catalunya, which starts on Monday, the team has announced. They spearhead a strong line-up for the Australian squad, who will surely be heading to Spain with ambitions to win the week-long stage race with three potential general classification contenders. Catalunya will be Chaves` second WorldTour stage race of the season, having also ridden Paris-Nice, and the race marks another step on the road back from what was an eight-month lay-off caused by the mononucleosis virus. The Colombian returned to racing in February at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, which was his first event since the 2018 Giro d`Italia.ADVERTISEMENT Meanwhile, the Yates brothers have seen success already this season, with Adam winning a stage at the Volta a Valenciana and taking second place at last week`s Tirreno-Adriatico, after a heartbreakingly close final time trial. Simon has won a stage at both the Ruta del Sol and Paris-Nice, as well as the mountains classification at the former. `We are sending a super strong team to Catalunya, and there`s no time trial, which is convenient,` said Adam Yates in a statement released by the team, referring - perhaps a little tongue-in-cheek - to him losing Tirreno to Jumbo-Visma`s Primoz Roglic by just one second. `We didn`t come away with the overall win in Tirreno recently, but we took a stage win and held the leader`s jersey for almost the whole race, so it bodes well for the team and the team`s confidence in me before Catalunya,` he said.
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