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The UCI introduced the checklist of groups who’ve utilized for WorldTeam, Ladies’s WorldTeam and ProTeam licenses for the approaching season, revealing three new candidates for the highest tier for ladies and 4 groups hoping to hitch the ProTeam ranks.
Continental squad AG Insurance coverage-NXTG have utilized for a top-tier license as introduced in July. Their utility is listed below AG Insurance coverage-Soudal Fast-Step, reflecting their relationship with Patrick Lefevere’s WorldTeam.
Ceratizit-WNT will lastly step to the highest after being one of many high 15 groups of the previous three years, whereas the Ciclismo Mundial staff, who raced as Planta-Pura this season, are the third staff trying to transfer into the WorldTour.
As reported beforehand on Cyclingnews, the Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad have utilized as Israel-Premier Tech Roland, as the boys’s WorldTour sponsors from the previous three seasons will transfer right into a extra distinguished function in 2023.
Human Powered Well being, who’ve a present Ladies’s WorldTeam and males’s ProTeam, weren’t listed on the press launch by the UCI, however the staff instructed Cyclingnews that this is because of a delay of their utility.
“This is because of an administrative delay with the financial institution in command of our staff assure. We modified banks this 12 months, and it took them a little bit longer to get off the beginning line with this than we hoped,” a staff spokesperson stated.
“Human Powered Well being’s funding for 2023 is all in place, and we’re busy constructing in direction of an thrilling new season because the assure is processed.”
This 12 months’s remaining Ladies’s WorldTeams have been all listed as making use of to resume for 2023.
On the boys’s facet, all 18 of the prevailing males’s WorldTeams plus promotion candidates Alpecin-Deceuninck, Arkéa-Samsic and Uno-X Professional Biking have submitted functions for 2023, though the latter seem to not have glad the sporting standards for promotion.
TotalEnergies, who have been broadly anticipated to use for a WorldTeam licence, as a substitute have utilized for ProTeam standing.
Uno-X additionally didn’t seem to fulfill the sporting standards, so promotion is unlikely. They signed Alexander Kristoff for 2023 and could be anticipated to proceed as a ProTeam.
B&B Inns-KTM weren’t among the many different 10 present ProTeams listed and, like Human Powered Well being, have been seemingly lacking from the checklist for a similar cause as the ladies’s staff.
Nonetheless, the absence of Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli’s is extra worrying because the staff are dealing with an unsure future amid a seek for a brand new title sponsor.
The ProTeam checklist is down by two groups, as Alpecin-Deceuninck and Arkéa-Samsic are confirmed to have utilized for WorldTeam licenses since they met the sporting standards of being within the high 18 groups.
There have been 4 new groups on the checklist, all from the Continental ranks. Essentially the most thrilling is New Zealand’s Bolton Equities Black Spoke, who have been ranked twenty fourth within the UCI Staff Rankings in 2022. Are also Fabian Cancellara’s Tudor Professional Biking mission, Staff Corratec from Italy, and Q36.5 Professional Biking, presumably a brand new staff based by former Qhubeka/NTT supervisor Doug Ryder.
