#LV2015 Trek Factory Racing's Jasper Stuyven, who won stage 8 of this year's Vuelta a Espana, has been forced to withdraw from the race.

Denmark's Lars Bak - Team Lotto-Belisol's strong and tireless man for long breakaways - is returning to training on the roads after the crash in GP La Marseillaise two weeks ago in which he fractured one of his scaphoid bones.