British time trial champion Alex Dowsett will miss the 2016 Tour de France after Movistar omitted the Essex man from the final nine-man squad who will take to the Mont-Saint-Michel startline on Saturday (July 2).
Dowsett was originally pencilled in to ride the Giro d’Italia this year but a crash at the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon forced him to readjust his season’s targets.
But the 27-year-old was unable to force his way into Movistar’s nine-man line-up, centred on last year’s runner-up Nairo Quintana, for the Tour de France.
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