Alé to support amateur cycling as UAE Team Emirates take over WorldTeam

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Alé will continue their support of amateur cycling as UAE Team Emirates take over Alé BTC Ljubljana’s Women’s WorldTour licence in 2022. 

In the team's first statement since the news of the takeover, APG Cycling CEO and President of Alé BTC Ljubljana Alessia Piccolo confirmed that Alé will continue their involvement in cycling after the team changes hands. 

Matilda Price is a freelance cycling journalist and digital producer based in the UK. She is a graduate of modern languages, and recently completed an MA in sports journalism, during which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of young cyclists. Matilda began covering cycling in 2016 whilst still at university, working mainly in the British domestic scene at first. Since then, she has covered everything from the Tour Series to the Tour de France. These days, Matilda focuses most of her attention on the women’s sport, writing for Cyclingnews and working on women’s cycling show The Bunnyhop. As well as the Women’s WorldTour, Matilda loves following cyclo-cross and is a recent convert to downhill mountain biking.