'Worst case scenario is team continues as it is' says B&B Hotels sprinter Mozzato
Team manager Pineau sౠtill to confirm ♛new sponsors as UCI registration deadline nears

As the cloud of uncertainty intensified above the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:B&B Hotels-KTM team and its prospective signing like 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish, the team's current sprinter 🌜has no major worries about the team's future.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Mozzato, a rising Italian talent who secured five top ten finishes on stages at the Tour de France, believes the worst possible outcome would see the team continue i🤪n its current guise.
The second-division French team run by Jérôme Pineau had been expected to welcome new major sponsors for 2023, along with a string of big-name signings including Cavendish and lead-out man Max Richeze. However, a planned team presentation three weeks ago was cancelled with a day's notice and there has been new news since, with report🌳s in the French press indicating Pineau's plans are far from🌠 secure, with time running out to secure new sponsors and register with the UCI for 2023.
While that may leave Cavendish and others in a tricky situation, Mozzato has suggested the team will at least conti💯nue in its current, unexpanded, structure. B&B Hotels were ranked 23rd, just behind Astana Qazaqstan and Uno-X in the UCI team ranking for 2022, securing a🐎 wild card invitation to the Tour de France and a number of other WorldTour races.
"I don't know much more than what the media say, but I think it's more a matter of understanding what the team's budget will bℱe," Mozzato told
"In the worst case, the team sh𝐆ould remain as this year's, and that would be fine for me. At 🅺the moment I have no reason to worry."
B&B Hotels-KTM, set up in 2018, failed to complete their registration with the UCI by the initial October 15 deadline, with Tuesday's deadline of November 15 representing a mo💫re critical cut-off point.
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There could still be an opportunity via an appeal process to the UCI Licence Committee but Pineau is in a race against time to find new sponsors, with Amazon France, Carrefour, Cdiscount, and the City of Paris all rumoured but never confirmed. The City ⛦of Paris was set to lend its name to the project but it later emerged it would🉐 not be contributing financially and may have withdrawn its support.
The B&B Hotels chain is understood to be on board for 2023, with sponsorship of five million Euro, which cou😼ld, as Mozzat😼o indicates, allow the team to continue next season with the riders it currently has under contract.
Mozzat꧑o himself signed a contract extension in the summer that takes him through 2025. The 24-year-old turned professional in 2020 and although he has yet to win a race, is seen as a brig🌠ht prospect in sprinting and the Classics after a string of top-fives this season, as well as four top-10s at the Tour de France.
"Victory is a goal, not an♓ obsession. I am sure that, working as I am, sooner or later it ꦚwill come, although I'm aware that if I had obtained it this year the season would have had a sweeter flavour. It takes a little patience," Mozzato told Tuttobici.
"I can't give myself a very high grade beca💝use the declared goal at the beginning of the season was to win. Having said that, the season was certainly positive, I was always present even in the most important events and I collected a lot of placings. I can give myself a seven, or a seven and a half, because in any case I made a further step forward in the growth process, which is the most important thing."
Patrick is a freelanc൲e sports writer and editor. H♐e’s an NCTJ-accredited journalist with a bachelor’s degree in modern languages (French and Spanish). Patrick worked full-time at Cyclingnews for eight years between 2015 and 2023, latterly as Deputy Editor.