Welcome moral boost for Lotto as one of their sponsors last-minute agreed to continue their cooperation for another year

Caps will remain on board as co-sponsor at Lotto Dstny for one more year. While title sponsor Dstny chose to not extend their partnership with Lotto after internal disagreements, this comes as a welcome boost for the Belgian team, which must submit its registration file today as part of the license application to the UCI.

The Lotto team will have to continue without Dstny after this year. It is not yet certain whether some other co-sponsors will extend, but the contract with Caps has been extended by one year, Het Laatste Nieuws reports. This happened the day before the deadline of Tuesday 15 October. Teams must submit their registration file on that day, which includes the number of contracts of riders and staff members. Earlier, on 2 October, the teams had to send their bank guarantee to the UCI.

The registration file must be approved by the UCI. If this does not happen, riders from the team in question may leave for another team without a buyout fee or agreement. At Lotto Dstny, Jarno Widar and Maxim Van Gils are said to be of interest to other teams who are waiting for an opportunity to secure the talented Belgians for themselves.