Unibet-Rose Rockets leads Strade Bianche and San Remo wildcard selections

The Unibet-Rose Rockets team may have missed out on a wildcard invite to the 2026 Tour de France (or any ASO event, for that matter), things are looking up for the young team's first ever Grand Tour invite, to the Giro d'Italia.

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Escape CollectiveKit Nicholson

Giro promoter RCS Sports announced wildcard invitations Tuesday for its March round of races, including Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, and Milan-San Remo. The social media darling Rockets got nods for two, with entries to Strade Bianche and the season's first Monument, M-SR. (Top ProTeams Pinarello-Q36.5 and Tudor get automatic wildcard entry. Cofidis also gets automatic entry but declined its spot in Strade Bianche and Tirreno-Adriatico, opening up an extra discretionary spot.)

Joining them will be a range of teams with a heavy Italian flavor. Here's the lineup for discretionary wildcards:
Strade Bianche: Unibet-Rose Rockets, Bardiani CSF 7 Saber, MBH Bank Ballan-CSB, Solution Tech-Nippo-Rali, Polti-Visit Malta
Tirreno-Adriatico: Bardiani CSF 7 Saber, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, Solution Tech-Nippo-Rali, Polti-Visit Malta
Milan-San Remo: Unibet-Rose Rockets, Bardiani CSF 7 Saber, Novo Nordisk, Polti-Visit Malta

Giro d'Italia wildcard announcements will follow, perhaps as soon as next week.

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