After a good month of racing and training in Malaysia and Thailand the Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team is ready for the Tour de Langkawi.

Some of the riders have been racing from Christmas, when they raced in the Tour of South China Sea. Others joined for training in Malaysia and raced the Jelajah Tour of Malaysia. After that 11 riders from the team trained together in Malaysia. Now 5 riders just finished the Tour of Siam in Thailand. With 3 riders in the first 15 of the GC and two second places and one third in stages and a second place in the General Team Classification for the Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team, this was a good preparation for Langkawi.

Selected for the Tour de Langkawi are: Russian sprinter Sergey Kudentsov, Chinese Xing Yan Dong, Dutch riders Pol Nabben and Thijs Zonneveld and racing a home race Loh Sea Keong from Malaysia. Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh from Mongolia had to travel back home and will be replaced with Yu Tong from China, arriving tomorrow from Beijing.

The team is in great shape with 7 podium placings in UCI races the first month of this year. Only the victory is still missing, hopefully this will come in the Langkawi.