UAE Team Emirates, Bora Hansgrohe and Bike Exchange Jayco are among nine WorldTour teams that will open the 2022 European season on January 26 at Challenge Mallorca.

They join Movistar, AG2R Citroen, Israel Start-Up Nation, Lotto Soudal Cofidis, and Intermarche Wanty Gobert as riders and teams look to start racing early and prepare for big goals in 2022

The team is also looking forward to the 2022 season.

The 2022 road racing season will begin with Australian riders such as Richie Porte, Rohan Dennis, and Grace Brown taking part in the four-day Santos Festival of Cycling, which will replace the World Tour race, Tour Down Under, around the world. It is scheduled to open at the same time.

Racing in the south of France will begin with the Grand Prix Cycliste de Marseille la Marseillaise on January 30, followed by the Etoile de Besseges - Tour du Gard in early February. [Trek-Segafredo, Beulah Hansgrohe, Cofidis, Lot Soudal, Movistar, Israel Startup Nation, Ineos Grenadiers, and Astana Kazakstan make up the list of World Tour competitors for 2022.

La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Peter Sagan will make his TotalEnergies debut in the South American stage race, while time trial world champion Filippo Ganna and his new teammate Ineos Grenadiers Elia Viviani will also participate.

The Challenge Mallorca will include five races in 2022 and will officially be known as the Garden Hotels-Luxcom Challenge Ciclista Mallorca. A total of 25 teams have been invited to participate in the five consecutive races on the Spanish island.

The invited professional teams are Caja Rural Seguros RGA, Euskaltel Euskadi, Kern Pharma, Eolo Kometa, Bardiani-CSF-Faizene, Steak-Samsic, Burgos BH, Sport Continental teams include: Beat Cycling, Electro Hyper Europe, New Zealand's Global 6, Java Kiwi Atlântico, Manuela Fundacion, Minerva Fundacion, Minerva Cycling, and Work Service Vital Care Vega.

Teams can choose different riders for the five races, often swapping riders based on the race route and selecting climbers for the hilly races in the northern part of the island.

The Challenge Mallorca races were postponed to May in 2021 due to the COVID-19 epidemic, but this year they will be an important early season race block The five races are Trofeo Calvia, Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana, Trofeo Pollensa, Trofeo Arcadia, and Trofeo Playa de Palma, visiting different locations and different terrain on the vacation island under the name "Trofeo Arcadia.

Four races were held last May, won by Ryan Gibbons, Jesús Herrada, Andre Greipel, and Winner Anacona.