MTN-Qhubeka may still join WorldTour, despite being left off UCI list

MTN-Qhubeka/Team Dimension Data boss Doug Ryder tells Cycling Weekly that the African squad could yet move up to the top flight in 2016

Edvald Boasson-Hagen during the Team Presentation of the 2015 Tour de France

(Image credit: Watson)

Team MTN-Qhubeka could be in the WorldTour next year when it races as Dimension Data with new signing Mark Cavendish contesting the sprints.

Team Principal Doug Ryder told Cycling Weekly today that it is possible his South African team will join the top division regardless of the list of WorldTour teams published by the UCI yesterday, which did not include MTN-Qhubeka/Dimension Data.

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