Lidl-Trek and Mads Pedersen will be down a key man at this year's Spring Classics, with Latvian champion Toms Skujiņš announcing on Sunday that a bout of illness has left him requiring more time to recover.
The 34-year-old pulled out of Paris-Nice before the fifth stage after getting sick on the brutally wet day to Uchon, and has not raced – or really trained, by his own admission – since then. He will reset now for the summer and the Grand Tours, having raced seven of the last eight Tours de France.
