The UCI has asked its license commission to withdraw Astana’s WorldTour license but the Kazakh team still plans to be at the start of the Strade Bianche and Paris-Nice this weekend. A decision won’t be made this week.

Last Friday the UCI announced that it had asked the license commission to reconsider its decision to grant the Astana team a license. If the Kazakh team does not get any license at all, the squad won’t be allowed to participate in UCI races.

Saturday’s Strade Bianche is the next race on Astana’s schedule and one day later they plan to start Paris-Nice. Three days later it is time for Tirreno-Adriatico where Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali is scheduled to ride.

Lars Boom has spent the last weekend in Tenerife. “I have been there for a two-week training camp,” he told NOS. “It went well.” He has not heard anything about the case. "I've just had my schedule, the tickets are booked. I can’t say much about it."

On Saturday, he will ride Strade Bianche, his first race since the Tour of Qatar which he had to leave prematurely due to a disqualification for drafting. “It remains to be seen where I am.” In the evening he takes the flight to Paris where he aims at a good result in Sunday’s Paris-Nice prologue. “That’s one of my goals. I won the prologue in 2010.”