World Tour Wildcards 2026

[yaco]

Ya, not that surprising. TDU is an expensive trip for ProTeams.

What. Everything is paid for by the organisers. Accommodation, vehicles, business class airfares.

 

[search]

What. Everything is paid for by the organisers. Accommodation, vehicles, business class airfares.

surely not for an unlimited amount of teams? Are you 100% sure that PT teams get the same deal as WT?

 

[yaco]

surely not for an unlimited amount of teams? Are you 100% sure that PT teams get the same deal as WT?

I am 100% certain. There is only one PT team at the men's edition. I will ask questions when I am on the ground at the TDU.

 

[ingsve]

What. Everything is paid for by the organisers. Accommodation, vehicles, business class airfares.

You sure? Never heard that.

 

[search]

There is only one PT team at the men's edition.

I was more thinking about the other two with a wildcard guarantee not coming, as is basically the case every year. Q36.5 has their guys in the national team anyway, but I guess a team like Cofidis would normally be interested, if everything was paid for them - also because the sprint race afterwards is now 1.pro.

By UCI rules, ProTeams only need to be paid 3500 EUR for travel exposures (+hotel costs, of course), while the mimimum participation allowance for WT teams comes down to a PCC agreement. And for 3500 Euro, obviously no one can travel to Australia.

So while all three PT teams must still be invited, an overseas race could basically cherry pick by offering one more than the other.
So it would be interesting to know how exactly this is handled.

 

[Samamba]

I am 100% certain. There is only one PT team at the men's edition. I will ask questions when I am on the ground at the TDU.

It's not the same for ProTeams. At least it wasn't in the past, maybe it changed. For Lotto It was 10s of thousands of euro's difference to go overseas (TDU and Canada) compared to being WT.

But also it's an expensive trip in general cause you need to be there earlier, and also after TDU for Cadel Evans.