Injured A Pérez sits out team camp

Álan Pérez has been forced to skip the team's training camp on the Costa Blanca because of a knee complaint.

Various Spanish sources this week report the versatile 29-year-old to be suffering from a mild knee injury. The injury is not expected to hamper the former Orbea rider's season in any meaningful way, but it is apparently still enough to set him out of action.

Pérez is, along with the seven riders who just got home from the Tour Down Under, the only rider missing in action in Alicante. He's likely to be one of the protected riders in the cobbled classics later this year.