when are teams announced for tour de france
List of teams and cyclists in the 2017 Tour de France As the Tour de France is a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Four UCI Professional Continental teams were announced as wildcard teams on 26 January 2017, and thus completing the 22-team peloton.[3] Of these teams, Wanty–Groupe Gobert rode the race for the first time.[4]