PARIS, May 3, 2010 – Spaniard Oscar Freire, winner of the Milan-Sanremo race in March, will spearhead the Rabobank team on the Tour of Italy which gets under way on Saturday.

The three-time world champion – 1999, 2001, 2004 – will line up for the first time in the Giro, the only major tour on which he has not won a stage.

Freire has won seven stages of the Tour of Spain and four on the Tour de France.

Rabobank team for Giro:
Mauricio Ardila (COL),
Graeme Brown (AUS),
Jos van Emden (NED),
Rick Flens (NED),
Oscar Freire (ESP),
Dmitriy Kozontchuk (RUS),
Koos Moerenhout (NED),
Bauke Mollema (NED),
Pieter Weening (NED)