Wildcards for Amstel Gold Race 2022 set to bring in Mathieu van der Poel and Peter Sagan
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The first of the Ardennes tripple classics have confirmed what teams will be riding the 2022 edition and they include the likes of Alpecin - Fenix and TotalEnergies who are set to bring in riders with winning ambitions.
This wednesday the organizers of the Dutch race announced the following teams ahve received wildcards for the 2022 edition: Alpecin-Fenix; B&B Hotels-KTM; Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè; Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB; Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise; Team Arkéa Samsic and TotalEnergies.
The race has been won twice by Pro Continental teams in the last decade with Enrico Gasparotto winning for the current Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux team in 2016 and Alpecin's Mathieu van der Poel who took an iconic win in 2019. Last year the race was won by Wout van Aert in a milimetrical sprint with Tom Pidcock.
Having been forced to take a break from cycling, Mathieu van der Poel has recently gotten back on the bike and is training in Spain alongside many of his teammates and if his back issues don't flare he is likely to be at the startline as one of the favourites. The wildcards also allow Peter Sagan to focus on the race which is on his schedule, with Paris-Roubaix being the week after this year the cobbled classics specialists will be eyeing this race aswell.
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