Giro d'Italia: Tom Pidcock's Q36.5 team, along with Tudor, Polti and VF Group-Bardiani secure wildcard invitations
Pidcꦺock given gre🅘en light to target the Corsa Rosa alongside Swiss and Italian ProTeams

The organisers of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia have awarded wildcard invitations to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Q36.5 Pro Cycling and Tudor Pro Cycling, alongside Italian teams Polti-VisitMalta and VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè, confirming a total of 23 teams will compete in this🦄 year's Corsa Rosa.
Like the Tour de France and Vuelta a España organisers, RCS Sport requested a 23rd place for the 2025 Giro d'Italia after Q36.5, Tudor and other ProTeams pushed for a pla🅠ce in the Grand Tours.
The 2025 Giro d'Italia star𝓀ts in Albania on Friday May 9 and e꧅nds in Rome on Sunday June 1. Tadej Pogačar won last year's edition of the Giro d'Italia but has opted to focus on the Spring Classics and Tour de France in 2025.
Overall contenders for this year's event include 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Primož Roglič and Jai Hindley (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Juan Ayuso and Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates), Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenaܫdiers), Derek Gee (Israel-Pemier Tech) and Richard ꦫCarapaz (EF Education-EasyPost). Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Mads Pedersen (Lild-Trek) are also on the entry list.
After the UCI approved the invitation of an extra team beyond the usual participation rules on Monday, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France immediately awar♋ded their three wildcard places to TotalEnergies, Tudor Pro Cycling and Uno-X Mobility.
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España organisers will have to decide between the Spanish ProTeams Kern Pharma, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Burgos BH-Burpellet and Ca𒆙ja Rural-Seguros RGA and probably Q36.5 and Uno-X Mobility.
The Giro d'Italia wildcard selections mean that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock can now prepare to lead Q36.5 Pro Cycling at the Giro d'Italia♈. It remains to be seen if Tudor bowed to pressure from RCS Sport and will select Julian Alaphilippe or Marc Hirshi in their line-up.
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The 18 WorldTour teams automatically receive invitations to the three Grandꦚ Tours, while the two best-ღranked ProTeams from the previous season also secure automatic places. Race organisers can then award the final 'wild card' places at their discretion.
Israel-Premier Tech and Lotto earned automatic invites to the 2025 Grand Tours as the top two ProTeams of 2024. After Lotto opted to forgo the Corsa Rosa, the Giro organisers were abl𓄧e to invite four wildcard teams, with Tudor and Q36.5, Polti-VisitMalta and VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè securing thဣe golden tickets to the Corsa Rosa.

Stephen is one of the most experienced member of the Cyclingnews team, having reported on professional cycling since 1994. He has been Head of News at Cyclingnews since 2022, before which he held the position of European editor since 2012 and previously worked for Reuters, Shift Active Media, and CyclingWeekly, among other publications.
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