Team WIGGINS, the UK-based Continental team set up by Bradley Wiggins in 2014 looks set for Kerry Group Rás Mumhan next month.
Kerry Group Rás Mumhan has received a real boost with the news that British Continental squad Team Wiggins looks set to travel to Ireland for the event over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.
While neither the team not the race organisers have made any comment, stickybottle understands the squad will travel to Kerry at Easter.
It is expected to send a largely developmental line-up to the Irish event.
And while first-year U23 Irish rider Michael O’Loughlin has joined the squad of late, the Easter showdown clashes with the U23 Nations Cup.
It means if the Carrick-on-Suir teenager was selected for Nations Cup duty he would not rider Rás Mumhan.
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However, the team is packed with talent and will undoubtedly put up a strong challenge irrespective of the riders who make trip.
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The team had a dual focus for 2016; to develop road riders as well as track athletes.
Few riders will combine both and O’Loughlin is unlikely to be one of them, with road being his main focus.
Steven Burke, Mark Christian, Jon Dibben, Owain Doull and Andy Tennant are all part of Great Britain’s men’s endurance team.
But young guns like James Knox, Ashley Dennis, Sam Lowe, Luc Hall, Michael Thompson and Scott Davies should all be in the reckoning for selection for Kerry.
UK teams are nothing new to the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan and the likes of the Surrey League, Felt Colbornes-Hargroves and the Champions Systems-MaxGear have all helped raise the standard of the race in recent years.
However, not since Russell Downing in 2004 has an English rider won the race outright.
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