Roche and Deignan make Sky team for Giro

Philip Deignan (SPORTSFILE)

Ireland's Philip Deignan and Nicolas Roche will ride the Giro d'Italia for Team Sky, but there will be no British rider in the Grand Tour for a second successive year.

Deignan and Roche will ride as support for their Spanish team leader Mikel Landa in this year's Italian adventure, which begins in Apeldoorn, Holland with a 9.8-kilometres time-trial on Friday.