The organisers of the Tour de France Femmes confirmed the seven groups that will probably be becoming a member of the 15 Women’s WorldTour squads on this yr’s race.
Cofidis and Tashkent City earned computerized invites beneath UCI guidelines as the highest UCI Continental Women’s groups in 2023.
That leaves 5 open wildcard invites, which went to French groups Arkea-B&B Hotels and St. Michel-Mavic-Auber93, US workforce EF Education-Cannondale, the Belgian squad Lotto Dstny Ladies, and the Spanish workforce Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi.
The Tour de France Femmes begins in Rotterdam on August 12 and runs by way of August 18, with a end on l’Alpe d’Huez.
It would be the second look for Cofidis and the third for Arkea-B&B Hotels 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 are able to aspire to in sporting phrases,” Lazkano stated in a press launch. “After all, it’s the race par excellence, the place everybody needs to be current and the place all of the media consideration is concentrated. For each the workforce and the venture, it’s a enormous prize to be in the perfect race on the planet.
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“I additionally consider that it displays the work that’s being carried out from the places of work to the highway, since being on a stage of this caliber is the consequence of all this and represents the consolidation of the venture and the construction that we kind.”
Lotto Dstny have been additionally thrilled to get the invitation, writing on social media, “We are very excited to announce that Lotto Dstny Ladies will probably be one of many 22 groups firstly of Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, See you in Rotterdam on August twelfth!”
EF Education-Cannondale have been extra succinct, posting a number of exclamation factors and in all-caps “We are going to the Tour”.
Teams for the 2024 Tour de France Femmes
- AG Insurance-Soudal Team
- Canyon-Sram Racing
- Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team
- FDJ-Suez
- Fenix-Deceuninck
- Human Powered Health
- Lidl-Trek
- Liv-AlUla-Jayco
- Movistar Team
- Roland
- Team DSM-firmenich PostNL
- Team SD Worx-Protime
- Team Visma | Lease a Bike
- UAE Team ADQ
- Uno-X Mobility
- Cofidis Women Team
- Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team
- Arkea-B&B Hotels Women
- EF Education-Cannondale
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
- Lotto Dstny Ladies
- St Michel-Mavic-Auber93