The Cannondale Pro Cycling team will start their 2014 campaign in Australia, where they will attend the People's Choice Classic in Australia. The 50 km criterium will be the opening race of the Santos Tour Down Under, the first event of the UCI World Tour's six stages taking place from January 21 to 26.

Cannondale will go for some stage wins and has therefore appointed the Italian sprinter Elia Viviani as the captain of the team. He will receive help from the Australian rider Cameron Wurf, Kiwi George Bennett, Canadian Guillaume Boivin, Austrian Matthias Krizek, Slovenian Matej Mohoric  and Italian Alberto Bettiol. Biagio Conte will be the team director.

Also on January 19th, another race will have its start, Tour de San Luis. Cannondale is also represented at the race and has appointed Slovakian athlete of the year, Peter Sagan as captain. He also rode the race in 2013, where his best result was finishing2nd on stage 7. Moreno Moser, Damiano Caruso and Alessandro De Marchi will make their debut in a South American race. Oscar Gatto and Marco Marcato will go for the green jersey of the race, while Stefano Zanatta will be the Cannondale sport director.

But two riders from the Cannondale Team will start their season before the other. George Bennett will attend the 184 km long New Zealand Road Championship in Christchurch in order to improve his silver medal from last year. Cameron Wurf will attend the 183 km long Australian Road Championship in Buninyong.