BMC looking for ProTour wild card status

U.S. based Pro Continental team BMC is hoping to get wild card status again this year so it can earn invitations to ProTour events.

Team director Gavin Chilcott left the team’s training camp last week to fly to Swizerland to appear before the UCI License Commission.

In a team statement. Chilcott said the team has applied for wild card status, which among other things, requires that the team participate in the UCI’s Biological Passport anti-doping program. The team attained wild card status in 2008.

“As the only U.S. Pro Continental team this year, we’re on a short list of U.S. teams that will be racing in big European events,” Chilcott said. “We want to be at the Tours of Romandie and Switzerland again this year, and we also want to increase the number of large European races we are invited to.”

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