Porte and Dennis to ride Santos Festival of Cycling 2022

Confirmed teams and riders taking part in the 2022 Santos Festival of Cycling (January 23-29)

The peloton at the Santos Festival of Cycling 2021
The peloton at the Santos Festival of Cycling 2021
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Richie Porte and Rohan Dennis are among the WorldTour professionals who will line up to take part in the Santos Festival of Cycling in January 2022. The event, which replaces the Tour Down Under for a second year in a row, sees a men's race between 23-25 January, and a women's race 27-29 January.

The pair have three overall wins of the Tour Down Under between them, with Porte triumphing in 2017 and 2020, while Dennis won in 2015. The former has also won eight stages in the WorldTour event.

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