{"id":221614,"date":"2025-10-18T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221614\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:37:10","slug":"waerenskjold-has-to-put-mickey-mouse-on-hold-as-uno-x-suddenly-spots-once-in-a-lifetime-chance-in-license-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221614\/","title":{"rendered":"W\u00e6renskjold has to put Mickey Mouse on hold as Uno-X suddenly spots once-in-a-lifetime chance in license battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the potential merger of Lotto and Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty<\/a> to form Lotto-Intermarch\u00e9, the teams in the UCI ranking for the period 2023-2025 will all move up one place, below the two Belgian teams. Knowing that eighteen teams are eligible for a WorldTour license for the period 2026-2028, there is a huge battle going on for the last ticket. Uno-X Mobility wants to win.<\/p>\n

The UCI points accumulated over three years from all races will be added up after this season, when the period from 2023 to 2025 ends. Uno-X Mobility currently holds nineteenth place, which, in theory, is insufficient for securing a WorldTour license for the next three years. But the merger above means that Lotto and Intermarch\u00e9 will soon be joining forces.<\/p>\n

With Lotto in virtual twelfth place in the UCI team ranking and Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty in eighteenth place, Uno-X will virtually move up to the last spot. However, the lead over its closest rival, Cofidis, is only 401 points. And the French team has the advantage of being invited to the Tour of Guangxi as a WorldTour team, for example, while Uno-X has to collect its UCI points elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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\"unoW\u00e6renskjold called back from offseason for French time trial<\/p>\n

For that reason, it’s all hands on deck for the Norwegian cycling team, which will still be competing in the Veneto Classic and the Chrono des Nations on October 19. S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold was called back from vacation to ride another time trial in France on Sunday. “I got a message that there was a crisis when it came to the points. Then I knew I had to do the Chrono des Nations. ‘<\/p>\n

W\u00e6renskjold told TV2<\/a>: “I’ll take one for the team.” Because he had already planned a trip to Miami and Disney World in Orlando with his fianc\u00e9e, Iben. Team boss Thor Hushovd was the one who called his fast rider and emphasized to cycling journalist Daniel Benson<\/a> that the opportunity to be a WorldTour team as early as 2026 is a once-in-a-lifetime chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chances are pretty good for us, but Cofidis is in the Tour of Guangxi and can go to the Japan Cup, so they have more opportunities to score points,\u201d said the Norwegian. “We’ve had a great season and are very close to our goal of becoming a WorldTour team. We still need to score points, and the merger between Lotto and Intermarch\u00e9 must be approved. So it may take a while before we have clarity.”<\/p>\n

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S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold<\/p>\n

Uno-X Mobility did not consider WorldTour status in 2026 to be realistic<\/p>\n

Hushovd had not anticipated becoming a WorldTour team as early as 2026 before this season. \u201cWe talked about it a little last year, but thought promotion would be impossible. But with the season we’ve had, it became increasingly logical to do it this year. We didn’t race for UCI points all year, only for victories.\u201d<\/p>\n

And those came in abundance. Uno-X recorded 22 victories, including Omloop Het Nieuwsblad with W\u00e6renskjold, a stage in the Tirreno-Adriatico with Fredrik Dversnes, a Tour stage with Johannes Abrahamsen, and two stages and overall victory with W\u00e6renskjold again. \u201cOur identity from day one has been that we wanted to build it brick by brick, and we will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hushovd added: \u201cNext year we want to start in all three Grand Tours, but for now we don’t know anything yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the potential merger of Lotto and Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty to form Lotto-Intermarch\u00e9, the teams in the UCI ranking for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-221614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}