Marcel Kittel in the 2015 Peoples Choice Classic in Adelaide
It's a scene you normally see in football - a player gets dropped for a big game and he hands in a transfer request - but that's not the case with Marcel Kittel, according to Giant-Alpecin.
Kittel was not included in Giant's Tour de France squad last week after his early season was ruined with a recurring illness picked up after the Tour Down Under.
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‘You can see the power you need to survive the Tour de France’ - Marcel Kittel reflects on his most successful yearsMarcel Kittel retired from professional cycling as not only one of the best sprinters of his generation, but one of the most successful in the history of the Tour de France.
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Marcel Kittel talks us through his best yearMarcel Kittel has been pondering the question for a week. “How do you define your best year? Do you take victories as the most important factor?” It was what Chris Marshall Bell assumed when he first made contact for this interview
