 La Flèche Wallonne is part of the UCI World Tour , which meant that the 17 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and obliged to send a team . The race organisers ( ASO , which also organises the Tour de France ) made eight wildcard invitations to UCI Professional Continental teams . The peloton was therefore made up of 25 teams . Each team was required to enter between five and eight , so the maximum size of the peloton was 200 riders . MTN – Qhubeka and Team Roompot , however , only entered seven riders each , so 198 riders were entered into the race . 
