Strade Bianche joins RCS Sport WorldTour line-up in 2017
Strade Bianche will join RCS Sports line-up on the 2017 WorldTour. The UCI announced the calendar this week and it will include 37 events.
Strade Bianche completed it's 10th edition this year, where Fabian Cancellara (Trek-Segafredo) took the win. The race travels along the famed white gravel roads of Tuscany and finishes on the Piazza del Campo in Siena.
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"If the importance of a race is determined by the calibre of riders it attracts, then the Strade Bianche has to be considered one of the great international classics; since its birth, the best riders have challenged themselves to take glory. The last winner, Fabian "Spartacus" Cancellara, has won it three times (2008, 2012 and 2016) and he will now have a section of the race's iconic white gravel roads named after him – the Strade Bianche di Monte Sante Marie, one of the most testing of the entire race," said an event press release.
Next year it will join the WorldTour, where it will stay for three seasons, though 2019. RCS Sport also owns Giro d'Italia, Milano – Sanremo, Tirreno – Adriatico and Il Lombardia.
Strade Bianche will also be the first race of the 2017 Women's UCI WorldTour.
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