MTN-Qhubeka, Europcar among Vuelta a España wildcards

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2015 MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung team kit(Image credit: MTN-Qhubeka/Jens Herrndorff )

The organisers of the Vuelta a España today announced the five teams that will join the 17 WorldTour teams in the 2015 edition of the race. As expected, Spain's only Pro Continental team Caja Rural-Seguros RGA was one of the five. Also in the list are two French teams, Europcar and Cofidis, Team Colombia and the MTN-Qhubeka squad, which also earned wildcard bids in the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France.

Colombia was elated with the news after missing out on bids for the Giro and Tour. “It is a great day for us as a team, and we will be honored to bring the Colombian flag at the start of the Vuelta a Espana," manager Claudio Corti said. "For us, it is another big step ahead in our team’s evolution: after racing the Giro twice, we have now managed to earn the confidence of Unipublic, something we cannot wait to pay back with three weeks of aggressive racing in August and September.”