The organisers of the Tour de France Femmes confirmed the seven groups that will probably be becoming a member of the 15 Girls’s WorldTour squads on this yr’s race.
Cofidis and Tashkent Metropolis earned computerized invites below UCI guidelines as the highest UCI Continental Girls’s groups in 2023.
That leaves 5 open wildcard invites, which went to French groups Arkea-B&B Inns and St. Michel-Mavic-Auber93, US workforce EF Schooling-Cannondale, the Belgian squad Lotto Dstny Women, and the Spanish workforce Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi.
The Tour de France Femmes begins in Rotterdam on August 12 and runs via August 18, with a end on l’Alpe d’Huez.
Will probably be the second look for Cofidis and the third for Arkea-B&B Inns and St. Michel-Mavic-Auber93.
Ion Lazkano, sports activities supervisor of Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi stated it was a “enormous prize” for the workforce.
“For us to be within the Tour de France is the utmost we will aspire to in sporting phrases,” Lazkano stated in a press launch. “In spite of everything, it’s the race par excellence, the place everybody desires to be current and the place all of the media consideration is concentrated. For each the workforce and the mission, it’s a enormous prize to be in the very best race on the earth.
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“I additionally consider that it displays the work that’s being carried out from the workplaces to the street, since being on a stage of this caliber is the consequence of all this and represents the consolidation of the mission and the construction that we kind.”
Lotto Dstny had been additionally thrilled to get the invitation, writing on social media, “We’re very excited to announce that Lotto Dstny Women will probably be one of many 22 groups in the beginning of Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, See you in Rotterdam on August twelfth!”
EF Schooling-Cannondale had been extra succinct, posting a number of exclamation factors and in all-caps “We’re going to the Tour”.
Groups for the 2024 Tour de France Femmes
- AG Insurance coverage-Soudal Workforce
- Canyon-Sram Racing
- Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking Workforce
- FDJ-Suez
- Fenix-Deceuninck
- Human Powered Well being
- Lidl-Trek
- Liv-AlUla-Jayco
- Movistar Workforce
- Roland
- Workforce DSM-firmenich PostNL
- Workforce SD Worx-Protime
- Workforce Visma | Lease a Bike
- UAE Workforce ADQ
- Uno-X Mobility
- Cofidis Girls Workforce
- Tashkent Metropolis Girls Skilled Biking Workforce
- Arkea-B&B Inns Girls
- EF Schooling-Cannondale
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
- Lotto Dstny Women
- St Michel-Mavic-Auber93
