Battle for relegation: The return of the Movistar team, Israel and Lotto will lose in the category

No more proofs WGolden Tour on the international calendar and the match to find out which teams will enjoy the world tour license, the highest division of cycling and the one that gives the right to compete in the best races, in the period between 2023 and 2025 can be considered finished. A fight he participated in Movistar team, but the Navarrese squad knew how to react in time, their cyclists also responded and Movistar staged an amazing comeback. From flirting with relegation, from being close to the red lanterns, it became the 12th team, just behind AG2R Citroen Team and precedes the Astanain a classification that dominates Jumbo-Visma.

The ones who don’t know how to react in time are the teams Lotto Soudal and Israel-Premier Tech. Both still have more than a remote chance to save the category, but it is almost a miracle, so that from 2023 to 2025 they are not among the best, after being the worst teams World Tour in a match that started in January 2020.

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The main conclusion of the bad policy implemented by both Lotto and Israel is their uncertain presence on the road from next year. Thus, the Israeli team will only have invitations to the top-level World Tour classics, but will not have a guaranteed invitation to the three grand tours, to run the Giro, the Tour or the Vuelta they have to be invited. The Belgian team will suffer less Lotto-Soudal, because there was a good season (the classification that closes this year counts from 2020) you can be invited to all races world tour 2023.

Both Lotto-Soudal and TotalEnergies they will be able to participate in all the World Tour races they want, not being able to attend the ones that don’t suit them best, as the French formation did this year on more than one occasion; while the set of Mathieu Van der Poel Alpecin-Deceuninckand the former of Nairo Quintanathe French Arkéa-Samsic will increase in level world tour.