After the three Wild Cards granted by RCS Sport for Milano-Sanremo, Tirreno-Adriatico and Il Lombardia, on Thursday January 22 Team Colombia-Coldeportes celebrated its fourth Wild Card of the year for a World Tour race, and this time it will mark an absolute debut. The team managed by Claudio Corti is in the list of 24 teams taking part in the upcoming Volta a Catalunya, the traditional Spanish stage race taking place from March 23 to 29.

Spain will play a big part in Colombia-Coldeportes’ 2015 season: before Catalunya, the Escarabajos will fly to Spain in February to take part in the Vuelta a Andalucia – Ruta del Sol (February 18-22), and wish to take part to several more races in the country, including theVuelta a Espana. If an invitation for the Iberian stage race will be awarded, a whole-Colombian team would make an historical comeback to the Vuelta.

“We are happy and proud of the trust Volta a Catalunya showed to us," General Manager Claudio Corti said. It’s a race with a great tradition, and certainly suited to our climbers’ characteristics. To us, the Volta a Catalunya invitation is an aknowledgement of the team’s technical and organizational value, and of all the work we made through the past seasons: we are ready to stand up to this new challenge.”