ASO Announces Men's and Women's Paris-Roubaix Teams

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ASO Announces Men's and Women's Paris-Roubaix Teams

The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) has announced the teams for the Paris-Roubaix Femmes on April 16 and Paris-Roubaix on April 17 in France. In addition to the automatic invitations, there will also be wild card teams. In addition to the automatically invited teams, seven women's teams and four men's teams will be invited as wild cards.

The women's peloton will host the event for the second time, following the historic first edition last October, which was won by Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo). The men's race was won by Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain-Victorias) in last year's 118th edition.

Trek-Segafredo is one of 14 women's world teams, including Canyon Slam Racing, FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope, Liv Racing Extra, Movistar Team Women, and Team Bike Exchange Jaycor. At the starting line, in addition to Team DSM, SD Worx and UAE Team ADQ (formerly Ale BTC Ljubljana), newcomers Jumbo-Visma, Uno-X, Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad, Human Powered Health, EF Education-TIBCO-SVB, the top teams were added.

"Hell in the North. Cycling's legendary classic race will host its first women's edition in 2021. We will be competing in the women's and men's editions in 2022, which will be a first for a Norwegian team. This is a first for a Norwegian team," Uno-X posted on Twitter on Monday. The Uno-X Women's World Team earned an automatic berth, while the men's professional team was invited as a wild card.

The top three Continental women's teams also received automatic invitations, including Serratigit-WNT, Parkhotel Valkenburg, and Valcar Travel & Service.

Four French teams, Arkea Pro Cycling Team, Cofidis Women's Team, Stade Rochelle Charente Maritime, St. Michel Over 93, Le Cor Wahoo of Great Britain, NXTG by Experza of the Netherlands, and Belgium's Seven wild cards will be awarded to Continental teams, including Planteur Pla.

"What are we doing the weekend of April 16-17?" we will be participating in @Paris_Roubaix and #ParisRoubaixFemmes! Thank you ASO for allowing our athletes to participate in this mythical race," Cofidis wrote on his social media channels.

The men's race will feature 18 world teams, including defending champion Bahrain-Victorias, AG2R Citroen, Astana-Kazakstan, Bora-Hansgrohe, Cofidis, Quick Step-Alfa Vinyl, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers, Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, Israel-Premier Tech, Jumbo Visma, Lotto Soudal, Movistar, Team BikeExchange-Jayco, Team DSM, Trek-Segafredo, and UAE Team Emirates.

Vincenzo Nibali from Astana Kazakstan will race in all five monuments in 2022, including Paris-Roubaix. He plans to compete in all five monuments, according to Velofte and L'Equipe. The Italian rider also told La Gazzetta dello Sport, "I have never ridden Paris-Roubaix. It is certainly a risky race and one that you have to prepare for in detail, but you have to do it at least once in your life."

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The top three professional teams in second place and below are automatically invited: Alpecin Phoenix, Arkea Samsic, and Total Energy.

On the men's side, four pro teams were invited as wildcards, including B&B Hotels-KTM from France, Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB and Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise from Belgium, and Uno-X Pro Cycling from Norway. were invited.

"I am very proud to be part of Uno-X's unique journey. To be at the start line of the Cycling Monument is really big. Before the start, I don't think we will be one of the favorites to win, but I think this is the right ride for us. Kurt Asl-Avesen, sport director of the Uno-X team, said in a press release.

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