Paris-Roubaix wild card invite to cycling’s most harrowing race is the latest validation in the fast rise of Modern Adventure in its first pro season.
Modern Adventure will race Paris-Roubaix in another high-profile invite. (Photo: Sprint Cycling/MAPC)
Updated February 12, 2026 06:49AM
Modern Adventure Pro Cycling earned one of cycling’s most coveted wild card invitations and will race Paris-Roubaix on April 12.
The invite to the “Hell of the North” is another windfall in the American team’s debut season and puts the first-year team in one of cycling’s most prestigious and harrowing races.
The wild card hits close to home for co-owner and team founder George Hincapie. He finished in the top 10 seven times during his career, including second in 2005, making him one of American racing’s best in the French monument.
“It’s a race that’s close to my heart, one I have great memories of as a rider and now, together, we get to experience this from a whole new angle,” Hincapie said in a team note.
“It’ll be a big test for all the team, but we’ll continue to approach it with diligent preparation and as a collective unit.”
Other invitations went to Cofidis and TotalEnergies, two French teams closely aligned with ASO, as well as Flanders-Baloise, Tudor Pro Cycling, Pinarello Q36.5, and Unibet Rose Rockets. The latter missed out on a Tour de France wild card earlier this month, with Spain’s Caja Rural-RGA Seguros lining up in July.
Modern Adventure kicked off its debut season with flying colors at the AlUla Tour in January, just missing the podium with fourth overall and hitting second in the final stage.
The team also earned its place in the MPCC, the anti-doping movement that awarded provisional membership into the volunteer clean-racing advocacy group.
The team continues next week with split squads at the Vuelta a la Región de Murcia and the UAE Tour, its first WorldTour-level race starting Monday.
That’s followed by the Ruta del Sol and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne in Belgium at the end of the month. The team is also slated to race the Volta a Catalunya in March.
What else is on the horizon? The team won’t be racing a grand tour in its debut season due to its first-year status and points ranking.
Hincapie told Velo that the team will also have a strong presence on the U.S. calendar as well as ship its riders to other key events, like national and continental championships.