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MILANO, Mar 13 (CP) - Although the Belgian-Swedish ProTour team Unibet.com was not given a wild card for Milano-San Remo, the race organisers now eventually decided to distribute one.

The first of ten original classics will be ridden by all twenty ProTour teams and five ProContinental teams. Milano-San Remo will be the first ProTour race of the season for Unibet.com, after being excluded from Paris-Nice and the Tirreno-Adriatico.

The invited ProContinental teams are Acqua & Sapone, Barloword, Ceramiche Panaria, Team LPR and Tinkoff Credit Systems.

Participating teams:

Acqua & Sapone (Ita)
Ag2R Prévoyance (Fra)
Astana (Sui)
Barloworld (GBr)
Bouygues Telecom (Fra)
Caisse d'Epargne (Esp)
Ceramiche Panaria (Ita)
Cofidis (Fra)
Crédit Agricole (Fra)
Discovery Channel (USA)
Euskaltel-Euskadi (Esp)
Française des Jeux (Fra)
Gerolsteiner (Ger)
Lampre-Fondital (Ita)
Liquigas (Ita)
Predictor-Lotto (Bel)
Quickstep-Innergetic (Bel)
Rabobank (Ned)
Saunier Duval-Prodir (Esp)
Team CSC (Den)
Team Milram (Ita)
Unibet.com (Swe)
Team LPR (Ita)
Tinkoff Credit Systems (Ita)
T-Mobile Team (Ger)

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