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The organisers of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Strade Bianche, RCS Sport, announced on Friday that they have added another wild card team to the 2018 edition of the race in order to allow cyclo-cross World Champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout van Aert to compete.

Van Aert's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Veranda's Willems-Crelan squad will line up for the March 3 event with Nippo-Vini Fantini and Androni Giocattoli as the other wild card tea💛ms, making a total of 21 teams along with the 18 WorldTour squads.

Because of the UCI's reduction in team sizes for races this season💛, the peloton will be 147-riders stron❀g with teams of seven riders each.

Michal Kwiatkowski will return with Team Sky with the number 1 dossard as last year's winner, as will runner-up Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) and fourth-placed Zdene🌠k Stybar (Quick-Step Floors).

World champion Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) will be on the line looking for his first win in the Italian race, which will traverse 11 sectors of the region's iconic white gravel roads fo♒r 63km total.

Boom to return in Paris-Nice

Lars Boom (LottoNL-Jumbo) set his sights in Paris-Nice for his return to racing. The Dutchman had 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:heart surgery to correct an arrhythmia in January, and says in a video interview posted by his team thatꦰ the procedure had more of an impact on him than he expected.

He ♛was originally slated to race the Omloop Het Nieuwsb𝓀lad, but after his surgery he was unable to train well at first and is not in the form he had hoped.

His team agreed that an altitude camp and then Paris-Nice was a better route fo🅘r his season's goals.

Three wild cards teams for 2018 Tour de Suisse

The organisers of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Suisse have announced Aqua Blue Sport, Direct Energie, and Nippo-Vini Fantini Europa Ovini as its three wild card teams for the 2018 edition of the WorldTour race. The race will take place 9-17 June,&nb🦂sp;starting with a team time trial in Frauenfeld, and finishing in Bellinzona.

Aqua Blue Sport returns to the race a year on from Larry Warbasse's stage win having struggled so far to attract invitations in its second year as a Professional Continental squad. The team also won a stage at the Vuelta a España last year via Aust𝔉rian Stefan Denifl and started their 2018 campaign with a stage win for Lasse Norman Hansen in Australia at the Herald Sun Tour.

French team Direct Energie is a regular invitee to theඣ Tour de Suisse and again will line out i꧒n June for the race. Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel is expected to be on the start line for Direct Energie.

The third and final wild card for the 2018 edition of the race is Nippo-Vini Fantini Europa Ovini. The Italian-Japanese squad will make their debut at the Tour de Suisse. For✤mer Giro d'Italia winner Damiano Cunego will retire from the sport at the conclusion of the race. Italian Marco Canola is also expected to line out for Nippo alongside Cunego.

BinckBank Tour returns to Muur van Geraardsbergen

The organise♕rs of the BinckBank Tour, Golazo, announced the route for the 2018 edition, with the famed Muur van Geraardsbergen once again punctuating the final stage.

The 𒐪14th edition of the race will begin in Heerenveen in the Netherlands on August 13, 2018, and return to the finish in Bolsward after looping throug🧸h several towns. A 13km time trial in Venray follows.

Stage 3 crosses the border into Belgium with a start in Aalter and a sprint-friendly finish in A♏ntwerp. The fourth stage is the classic route from Blankenberge to Ardooie stage, before Friday's t🔜rip from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw to Lanaken.

The hills come into play as the race heads back into the Netherlands from Riemst to Sittard-Geleeen with a finish at the Tom Dum🐽oulin Bike Park - named after the Giro d'Italia, world champion and defending champion of the race.

The final stage takes place back in Belgium, with a start in ෴Lacs de Eau d'Heure with a toug💝h finish featuring the Bosberg, the Denderoordberg and the Muur van Geraardsbergen.

"The course is once again perfectly in line with our philosophy:♛ to offer an ideal stage race for the real Classics rider," said Golazo's Nick Van Den Bosch. "After reading the results of the last years, we have succeeded each year. Riders in the spring classics will especially have the opportunity to make a difference during the final weekend. With the Binck Gold Kilometer, we also ensure that the race comes to life already 20 kilometers from the finish of each stage. O𒀰nce again this year, we are looking forward to an event full of surprises."

2018 BinckBank Tour
August 13: Heerenveen (Ned) – Bolsward (Ned)
August 14: Venray (Ned, ITT)
August 15: Aalter (Bel) – Antwerpen (Bel)
August 16: Blankenberge (Bel) – Ardooie (Bel)
August 17: Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (Bel)– Lanaken (Bel)
August 18: Riemst (Bel) – Sittard-Geleen (Ned)
August 19: Lacs de 🅰l'Eau d'Heure (Bel) – Gera🐼ardsbergen (Bel)