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🇧🇪🇯🇵 After the announcement of Nippo joining Intermarché Wanty as a sponsor, the 3 japanese riders joining the developpement team are revealed, Shunsuke Imamura (multiple Asian champ track wins), Masao Shimazaki and Kazuma Fujimura (who had decent results as a junior).

🇲🇾 The foreign riders of Terengganu are revealed, besides Bregnhoj which was already known, Stefan De Bod, Vadim Pronskiy and Adne Van Engelen are joining the team, continuing to make it the strongest looking team in Asia.

📅Yesterday, the UCI started to publish the list of continental teams on their website. While the list is often incomplete initially (75 teams so far, the usual total is around 170), we learn several things through this first batch of teams.

With Pidcock's move to @Q36_5ProCycling officially announced this morning, take a look at our analysis made when the deal was first rumoured back in October.

🇭🇺🇨🇿 Former World Tour rider and current National TT Champion Barnabás Peák on Strava today. Current Adria Mobil rider is seemingly on his way to Czech CT outfit @jsmeteam👇

This is all speculative, but depending on what is happening with Arkea, Guangxi and the Veneto Classic could turn out to be very important races that will decide the GTs for next year.

Depending on who gets the auto invite, Uno-X or Arkéa, it could completly change the landscape of GTs next year. The biggest example would be that if Arkéa stays behind Uno-X, they will rely on a Wild Card for the Tour, like Arkéa, and Tudor would be without a WC most likely.

🇫🇷As you may have heard today, Arkéa is in a bit of trouble, as we have heard of at least two riders who were under contract for 2025 leaving the team early. Why? Because the team is in a troubled period budget wise.