Strade Bianche adds a wild card for Van Aert - News Shorts
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The organisers of 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 Wout van Aert to compete. Van Aert`s 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 teams, 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 strong with teams of seven riders each.ADVERTISEMENT 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 Zdenek 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 for 63km total. Boom to return in Paris-Nice Three wild cards teams for 2018 Tour de Suisse BinckBank Tour returns to Muur van Geraardsbergen You can read more at Cyclingnews.com