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2022 Season Review: Breaking Down the UCI Team Rankings

Season Breakdown: The 2022 road season is in the bag and so Spencer Martin has taken a close look at the team performances. What does the UCI Team point rankings tell about which outfits over, and under, achieved during the 2022 season?

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With the recent running of Il Lombardia marking the end of the 2022 WorldTour racing calendar, I’ve been taking some time to reflect on the trends we saw emerge in the past season and plan out the BTP off-season content. To kick off this reflection and re-examination, I wanted to step back and take stock of how each team stacked up in terms of the UCI point rankings.

Below are the top 23 teams (18 1st division + 4 PT) in order of the UCI points they gained from their top 10 point-scoring riders throughout the 2022 season (aka the UCI point rankings).

As we can see, Jumbo-Visma takes the top spot in the UCI rankings for the second time in three seasons, with former powerhouse, Quick-Step, falling all the way down to 6th place. And perhaps even more surprising, Jumbo-Visma also ranks as the top team in wins (tied with UAE), while Quick-Step fails to win the season-long ‘win title’ for the first time in over ten years.

And below we can see how my pre-season BTP NET projection model stacked up against the post-season UCI Team Point Rankings.

2022 Team BTP NET Projections Compared to Their Final UCI Point WorldTour Ranking Positions: 1) Team Jumbo-Visma (1) 2) UAE Team Emirates (2) 3) INEOS Grenadiers (3) 4) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl (6) 5) Bahrain – Victorious (8) 6) BORA – hansgrohe (4) 7) Trek – Segafredo (11) 8) EF Education – EasyPost (15) 9) Groupama – FDJ (7) 10) Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (9) 11) Movistar Team (10) 12) AG2R Citroën Team (13) 13) Israel – Premier Tech (16) 14) Team BikeExchange (14) 15) Intermarché Wanty Gobert (5) 16) Astana Qazaqstan (18) 17) Lotto Soudal (12) 18) Team DSM (17)

I will dive into team performance in further detail when I do my weighted BTP NET Rankings for the coming season, but below are a few quick takeaways from these initial results.

Initial Takeaways:

1) Jumbo-Visma is officially cycling’s new superteam

• After a multi-year turnaround project, the Dutch team is now home to some of the sport’s best riders (Wout van Aert, Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard) and will exit the 2022 season with a Tour de France overall title along with the most UCI points and wins.
• This is one of the most difficult achievements in the sport since the single-minded focus on winning an overall title at the grand tour usually means a team can’t compile enough wins and UCI points to lead the WorldTour.
• They will now head into the 2023 season as the undisputed best team in the sport and will have massive expectations on their shoulders at nearly every race where they take the start line.

2) Quick-Step fails to take the ‘win title’ for the first time since 2012

• Up until 2022, the Belgian team eschewed stage race results in order to rack up wins in one-day races and individual stages.
• While 2022 was disappointing in the respect that the team failed to take the win title for the first time since 2012 and produced their worst results in the cobbled classics since the founding of the team in 2003, it was a massive success in they won their first-ever grand tour (Vuelta a España) and unearthed the sport’s next big grand tour star in Remco Evenepoel.
• Assuming the team can hang onto Evenepoel beyond 2022 (he is being pursued by bigger-budgeted teams like Ineos), it will be interesting to see how the team sets its financial and sporting priorities going forward.
• Interestingly, while their 4th place finish in the UCI Points rankings is technically disappointing, it is the first time their pre-season BTP NET rankings have roughly aligned with their actual finish, which reflects that their past results have been more a result of the team’s structure producing an overachieving squad than pure talent.

3) UAE failed to defend its Tour de France, and struggled to look like a cohesive team at times, but produced their best season ever

• Tadej Pogačar’s UAE team failed to win the Tour de France for the first time since 2020, but their 2021 off-season spending spree appeared to pay off as they tied for first in the win title and were the only team within 2,000 points of Jumbo-Visma in the UCI points race.
• This shows us that while they appeared to struggle to select the right Tour de France lineup to support Pogačar and to race as a cohesive unit in the races where their superstar wasn’t present, they will head into the off-season viewing 2022 as a successful campaign and that they could potentially emerge as the sport’s most dominant team in future years if they can find the right racing formula to unlock the immense amount of individual talent on the team.

4) The French teams had a surprisingly strong year

• After years of struggling to maintain pace with their competition in the world of hyper-advanced training, French teams produced a strong 2022, landing five teams in the top 20 and staving off relegation, which allowed them to keep four teams in the 18-team WorldTour.

5) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert punched well above its weight

• If Alpecin was the underfunded overachiever of the 2021 season, Intermarché, who finished second-to-last in the 2021 WorldTour rankings, is the darling of 2022.
• With an extremely thoughtful team-building and in-race strategy, the underdog Belgian team was able to turn an 18th-place finish in 2021 into a shockingly high 5th-place finish in 2022.
• Most impressive is the gap between their BTP NET projection of 15th and 5th place finish, which shows that they really maximized the talent in their team.

6) DSM, EF, and Astana are in desperate need of a turnaround in 2023

• While Intermarché was flying high, three better-funded WorldTour rivals (DSM, EF, and Astana) suffered through absolutely awful seasons where points, wins, podiums and top tens were extremely hard to come by.
• While Astana and DSM struggled mainly due to weak rosters, EF’s extremely large delta between their BTP NET projected finish (8th), and their actual finish (18th), shows that their problems were more execution than talent related. I expect the American team’s off-season will include a significant amount of performance fact-finding to figure out how this could have happened.
• Putting just how poor the seasons of this trio were into perspective, while DSM only trailed AG2R by a single win, they finished over 2,000 UCI points behind the French team, which had a fairly disappointing season itself.

Next week I will be breaking down the top 20 in the UCI point rider rankings before getting into the usual BTP off-season content of digging deeper into team results and trends from the 2022 seasons in more depth, restarting the Weekly Transfer Analysis, and attempting to project 2023 performances with my BTP NET series after the rosters are set in January. An important note is that if you want access to all of these posts, you have to be a paying BTP subscriber .

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Spencer Martin authors the cycling-analysis newsletter Beyond the Peloton that breaks down the nuances of each race and attempts to bring a logic-based approach to cycling coverage. He is also a partner in cycling business publication The Outer Line, and in the past, has written for cycling outlets such as Velonews and CyclingTips. He has raced at a high-level in the past and still enjoys participating in a wide variety of races as well as riding in the mountains surrounding his residence in Boulder, Colorado. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @spencersoward.

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The New WorldTour Points System Explained

Following complaints from numerous teams about the WorldTour’s promotion and relegation system, the UCI has published new regulations with significant changes. The rule amendment has been published less than a month before the start of the new 2023-2025 triennium, whose cumulative ranking will determine which 18 teams will be part of the WorldTour in 2026-2028.

In summary, there have been three important changes, which will be discussed in more detail below:

• The UCI points scale gives much more importance to Grand Tours and Monuments, as well as to stages in WorldTour stage races.
• The UCI World Ranking for teams, both annually and across the triennium, will take into account the 20 best riders of each team, instead of 10 as at present.
• Teams relegated by the sporting criterion will have automatic invitations in 2023 for the entire UCI WorldTour, except for the Grand Tours. In practice, this allows Israel – Premier Tech to receive automatic invitations to all one week WorldTour stage races, even though they did not qualify for them under the rules in force during the 2020-22 triennium.

UCI Points Allocation

The UCI has revolutionised the scoring system for the next three years (2023-2025), with the objective of incentivising the best riders to participate in the most important races. To this end, they have multiplied by a factor of 1.6x the points allocated to the Monuments and the Road Race of the World Championships and Olympic Games. The points in the general classification of the Grand Tours and the ITT of the World Championships and Olympic Games have also been multiplied by a factor of 1.3x.

However, the most impactful change is the value of stages in Grand Tours and the rest of the WorldTour stage races. Whereas before only the top 5 in a Grand Tour stage and the top 3 in the rest of the WorldTour stages were awarded points, in 2023 the top 15 in a Grand Tour stage and the top 10 in the rest of the WorldTour stages will be awarded points. In addition, a much higher value will be given on places of honour in the stages. For example, in 2022 an individual stage in the Tour distributed a total of 240 UCI points, whereas in 2023 it will distribute 935 UCI points, a 290% increase.

In the following image, you can see the new scoring system, with the new Monuments category, differentiated from the rest of the classics. We recommend you to download it in high resolution from here .

Based on the calendar contested in 2022, this change in the scoring system means that there are 28% more UCI points at stake (308,903 vs. 241,027). But as the scoring of the continental circuit races has virtually remained the same (except for a slight increase in points for the ProSeries stages), this smaller calendar will see its importance reduced. Whereas under the previous scoring system the continental calendar shared half of the available UCI points, in 2023 it will share 40%.

As we can see in the graph, the most important races (Grand Tour, Monuments and Worlds) will now have a much higher weight (36% vs 23%). This was a demand from many WorldTeams and even fans, although it will hurt teams that do not have automatic access to those races, like Uno-X. The new scoring system will also benefit ProTeams that have wildcards for WorldTour races in 2023 (such as Lotto, Total and Israel) over those that do not (Uno-X and the rest), as they will be more likely to keep the invitations season after season with immediate access to the most profitable races.

Also the weight of the classics (except for the Monuments) is reduced in favour of stages in stage races. In 2022, all teams at risk of relegation added a large number of minor classics to their calendar, but from 2023 they will have to look for more places of honour in WorldTour stages. The forgotten riders of the previous points system, breakaway stage hunting specialists and consistent stage race sprinters, are suddenly much more valuable under the new scoring system. For example, Hugh Carthy targeted breakaway stages in the second-half of the Giro d’Italia 2022, placing fourth on the stages to Cogne and Lavarone, earning him a paltry 24 UCI points.

Under the new system, Carthy would have scored 160 points across both stages, a 567% increase. In the bunch sprints, Alberto Dainese scored 108 points across the three weeks of Il Giro 2022, but in 2023 he would have scored 370 points for his victory and five top 10 placements.

While most of the changes are logical, the UCI has left the door open to some schedule ‘optimisation’. For example, Continental Championships outside Europe still award 250 points to the winner of the road race (more than a stage of the Tour) and National Championships (some with a very low sporting level) still award 100 points to the winner of the road race.

20 Riders Count per Team

From 2023, the UCI World Team Ranking, used for the relegation battle ranking and to hand out automatic wildcards annually, will take into account the top 20 riders per team instead of the top 10. According to the UCI, this “will help to reduce the pressure currently imposed on only a limited number of riders, which can lead to a number of negative consequences (risks of injury, excessive number of race days, temptation to doping, etc.)”.

To better understand the impact of the new measure, the following graph shows how the 2020-2022 ranking would have changed if the top 20 riders had been taken into account. Lotto Soudal and Israel – Premier Tech would have been relegated anyway, although Israel would have been much closer to salvation.

The teams most dependent on their leaders (Jumbo, Alpecin, Movistar or BikeExchange) would have added the least percentage of points. ProTeams with shorter squads or without 20 riders capable to score points, such as Uno-X, Bingoal or Q36.5, will also be disadvantaged in 2023. Teams such as Quickstep or UAE Team Emirates, with large race programs and a deep pool of riders capable of scoring points, should be advantaged by this change.

The Israel Rule

The latest and perhaps most unexpected change is the UCI’s decision to “gift” Israel with invitations to all one week WorldTour stage races in 2023. It is worth remembering that Israel Premier Tech finished third in the ranking that awarded the 2023 wildcards and had therefore only won the wildcards to the one day WorldTour races on sporting merit. The UCI has clarified that the measure is temporary only for 2023, “coming as it does after three years of significant upheaval due to the global pandemic.”

This emergency measure by the UCI has surely calmed down Israel – Premier Tech owner Sylvan Adams after the millionaire threatened to sue the UCI for the implementation of the relegation system. Israel are also a favourite for the Giro and Tour discretionary organiser wildcards, so they will not feel the effects of the relegation as much, with the Vuelta being the only major race they will likely be absent from in 2023. The extra invitation for Israel takes a wildcard away from the organisers of one week WorldTour races and hurts again modest teams like Uno-X, Q36.5 or Kern Pharma.

The only constant about the UCI points and relegation system is that it is always changing, this time at very short notice. In imperfect systems there will always be winners and losers from structural changes such as these, with teams like UNO-X surely aggrieved by new regulations that make their path to WorldTour promotion more difficult. However if the changes function as intended, there may be some positives for the fans, with teams like Lotto-DSTNY now incentivised to send superstar Arnaud de Lie to more major stage races rather than entirely focussing on a local calendar.

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Always a must-read! 👏🏻 In your personal opinion will the “Sylvan Adams” rule actually help his team score more points? their squad seems weaker than it was last year so i don’t see them scoring many points in the 2.UWT races, even if they send their best riders, what would hurt their ability to score points at smaller races that occur at the same time.

Also it seems like a bad decision from the UCI to publish the rules change a week before 2023 and not much earlier when teams could’ve had times to perhaps sign other riders or tweak the training program, well unless the teams were told about these future changes in advance.

Good article indeed.

And announcement is too late indeed.

The fact they have starting right (not obligation) is obviously a plus for Israel. Also the increased points are obviously an advantage I think. They have more GC guys than Total and Lotto. Lotto also only has 26 riders under contract.

Short term only those two teams and Uno-X matter. If they do a lot more races than some of the WorlTour teams, they will promote again. But being in the top 2 of the ProTour teams is crucial for that promotion.

Lotto should now hire extra racers and also fully use the advantages of its development team (Total does not have a development team).

Overall I like the changes, and think they are all going in the right direction. I wonder if they have overshot the mark on some of them though.

The increase in points for stage wins is great. A stage win at the TdF worth more than a ProSeries win makes sense. I’m just not sure placings down to 15 needed points though. Maybe points just to the top 10 would have been enough.

Counting the top 20 riders seems an overshoot as well. I agree that the top 10 was too few. Was the “reasoning” to make sure domestiques didn’t feel pressure ? Maybe just the top 15 would be better.

Maybe next year, or in three years, we will see refinements and adjustments again, perhaps backing down a bit on these changes.

Agree that top 15 would have been better.

Top 20 is really bad for the protour teams with only 20 racers (although their chance to end up in the top 2 or promotion spots is low).

Also Lotto is kind of forced to hire 4 extra racers to score I think. There are still some options, but they are limited. They could also promote racers out of the development team whose points then probably count when they race with the development team in .1 and .pro races? It might remove their opportunity to do .2 races?

As for the top 15 spots that count in the Tour de France I like it for Tour de France as those positions still count for the Green Jersey. And for other stage races it is logical only the top 10 counts.

For the one day races, up the top 60 counts. I think that should be changed. For 1.1 races, you could count top 20, for 1.pro top 30, for 1.UWT top 40 and for monuments top 50.

Or even less points: top 10 for 1.1., top 15 for 1.pro, top 20 for worst UWT, top 25 for best UWT and top 30 for monuments. I am suprised they didnt change points in the one day races.

The reasoning is that under the old system we reached a point near the end of the year where riders outside the top 10 on good form had to domestique for riders in the top 10 because otherwise they wouldn’t score any points.

Indeed. That was bad. It had to be more than top 10 racers, but 20 seems too much.

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Silly question, if you will: are all WT teams safe now until the next triennium in ‘26, or do we go again next year, for the final year of the past three? PS, I refresh this page most days for the next instalment, keep up the great work.

Everyone keeps their WT license for the next 3 years based on the promotion / relegation system. Of course some teams may fold or lose their license for financial or other reasons, but promotion / relegation is only on a 3 year cycle.

The wildcards for the Proteams like Lotto, Israel and TotalEnergies is determined annually though

Brilliant, thanks…and Merry Christmas

En principio me pareció que aumentar la puntuación en carreras WT era necesario y merecido, en cuanto eso me parece correcto, sin embargo el análisis conlleva al problema de la factibilidad de que los actuales equipos WT de desempeño medio bajo y Pro con invitación a las pruebas WT se mantengan ahí sin afanes y muy cómodos, y que equipos ProTour (especialmente los de licencias distintas a la española, francesa, italiana y belga) se vean tan damnificados en aspirar a ascender de categoría que tal vez varios prefieran migrar próximamente a continental. Creo que con esto se crea un veto.

Los cambios favorecen la estabilidad de los equipos WT y dificultan los cambios y los ascensos. De todos modos, está bien que se mantenga el sistema de ascensos y descensos después de tantas presiones. Si los equipos de segunda división hacen bien su trabajo seguirán teniendo sus opciones de ascender, aunque sea un poco más difícil.

Muchas gracias Raúl. Tremendo trabajo. Este post es de lectura obligatoria para cualquier persona que siga el ciclismo profesional.

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Everything You Need to Know About the 2024 Easton Twilight Criterium

Coryn Labecki, Alexis Magner, and Thomas Gibbons headline the start list, promising an electrifying clash of talent to kick off the Tour of Somerville race weekend.

Featuring a challenging 0.8-mile circuit boasting six turns winding through downtown, the event will draw about 500 cyclists across 12 fields. Among them, amateurs and professional cyclists from across the globe, including Canada, Europe, and New Zealand, will face the technical course and race for victory and prizes totaling over $10,000.

Hosted by the Greater Easton Development Partnership (GEDP) and the City of Easton, the Easton Twilight Criterium sets off the Tour of Somerville race weekend, culminating in Somerville, NJ, on Monday, May 27, home to North America’s longest-running race. You can watch a livestream of the race on Bicycling ’s YouTube channel .

Criterium Course Route

Distance: 0.71mi Avg Gradient: 3% Number of Turns: 6 (5 x left, 1 x right)

Riders to Watch at the 2024 Easton Twilight Crit

The women’s field promises an animated battle with the presence of U.S. Crit Champion Coryn Labecki, sprint sensation Alexis Magner, and Pan American Road Champion Skyler Schneider. On the men’s side, seasoned winners like Thomas Gibbons, Danny Estevez, Cory Williams, and emerging talent James Gardner set the stage for a thrilling battle in the circuit.

Coryn Labecki (EF Education-Cannondale): The first active WorldTour rider to grace Easton, brings her national champion titles in road, cyclocross, and track to the competition. The EF Education-Cannondale rider recently competed in the stars-and-stripes kit for the first time at Speed Week, where she had two top-ten finishes and second place at the Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight Criterium.

Alexis Magner ( L39ion of Los Angeles): With a rich racing pedigree, including appearances on the UCI World Tour stage, Magner, alongside her sister Kendall Ryan, will arrive still riding a wave of victory after winning the Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight Criterium last month.

Arielle Verhaaren (Automatic-Abus): Transitioning from BMX racing, Verhaaren, the first American woman to win a UCI BMX Supercross World Cup, brings her talents to the road cycling scene.

Holly Simonson (LA Sweat): Reigning Canadian criterium national champion Simonson aims to continue her ascent in the cycling world with a strong showing at Easton following a stint of racing in Belgium with her LA Sweat team.

Skyler Schneider (Miami Blazers): Pan American Road Champion and multi-time national champion, Schneider presents a formidable challenge for her competitors, both domestically and internationally. So far this year, her best results include three top-five finishes at Speed Week.

Holly Breck (DNA Pro Cycling): Renowned for her breakaway skills, Breck brings her strategic finesse to Easton, aiming to capitalize on her impeccable timing and exceptional sprinting abilities. With 27 races under her belt this 2024, Breck should come into the race with confidence.

On the men’s side, notable contenders include:

Thomas Gibbons (Automatic-Abus): With victories in European and New Zealand races under his belt, Gibbons enters Easton with confidence following his recent win last month at the Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight Criterium.

Alex Juan Pablo Zapata (DCC): A versatile athlete with a string of accolades, Zapata, brings his international experience to the competition, showcasing exceptional bike handling skills. His best results this year are a stage win at the Tour of Newport News and fourth place at the CRCA Mengoni Grand Prix.

Danny Estevez (L39ion of Los Angeles ): Former U.S. national champion and Tour of Somerville winner, Estevez returns with the formidable L39ion squad, aiming to dominate with his sprinting prowess and team support. So far this season, Estevez has raced three times with two results in the top ten at the Greenville Cycling Classic and the Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight Criterium.

Cory Williams (Miami Blazers): Dominating criterium races for over a decade, Williams, is the younger brother of Justin Williams and co-founder of L39ION. This year, he has switched alliances to race with the Miami Blazerz and aims to leave his mark on the Easton Twilight Crit with strong team support.

James Gardner (MitoQ-New Zealand Cycling Project): Emerging as a talent from New Zealand, Gardner, seeks to showcase his skills and challenge the field for victory as one of the youngest competitors at 19 years old.

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• Monday, May 27 – Tour of Somerville (America’s Longest Running Bike Race), Somerville, New Jersey
• Tuesday, May 28 – TRACK – Super Tuesday Pro-Am Racing at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, Trexlertown, PA

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All six British UCI Continental teams confirmed for 2024 Tour of Britain Women

All six of britain’s female uci continental teams have today been announced as the first teams confirmed for the inaugural tour of britain women..

Taking place from Thursday 6th June to Sunday 9th June, the Tour of Britain Women will feature four challenging and exciting stages, beginning in Welshpool, Wales and culminating in Leigh, Greater Manchester where the winner will be crowned.

Alba Development Road Team; DAS-Hutchinson-Brother UK; Doltcini-O'Shea; Hess Cycling Team; Lifeplus-Wahoo and Pro-Noctis - 200° Coffee - Hargreaves Contracting complete the line-up of exciting British UCI Continental Teams set to take on the international stage race this June.

Returning to the Tour of Britain Women will be Lifeplus-Wahoo, Doltcini-O'Shea and DAS-Hutchinson-Brother UK. All have been competitive in the Women’s Tour, with British rider Alice Barnes finishing sixth for Lifeplus Wahoo, previously known as Drops, in the GC of the 2017 edition.

DAS-Hutchinson-Brother's Beckie Storrie finished on the podium as the Best British Rider in the 2022 Women’s Tour before progressing to WorldTour Team dsm firmenich PostNL.

Both elite teams in 2023, Alba Road Development Team and Pro-Noctis - 200° Coffee - Hargreaves Contracting stepped up to UCI Continental status for this season. Hess Cycling Team have switched to a British UCI Continental licence, further increasing the number of talented British Continental teams on the 2024 domestic circuit.

Lifeplus Wahoo have so far been dominating the National Road Series – the premier road racing series in the UK for men and women – with wins at both the CiCLE Classic and the Rapha Lincoln Grand Prix. Alba Development Road Team secured second place finishes at both the CiCLE Classic and the Women’s East Cleveland Classic, with Hess completing the podium with third in East Cleveland.

British Cycling Events Managing Director, Jonathan Day, said:

“We are delighted to be able to announce that all six British UCI Continental teams are the first to be confirmed for the 2024 Tour of Britain Women. 

“It’s great that the British based UCI Continental teams have got the opportunity to race in such a prestigious event on home soil, given their commitment to the domestic racing season. We’ve seen first-hand how exciting these teams are to watch and know that fans can expect a real spectacle next month.”

All four stage routes for the 2024 Tour of Britain Women have now been announced and can be found on the British Cycling website.

Further team announcements for the 2024 Tour of Britain Women will be announced in due course.

British Teams for 2024 Tour of Britain Women:

Alba Development Road Team

DAS-Hutchinson-Brother UK

Doltcini-O'Shea

Hess Cycling Team

Lifeplus-Wahoo

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2024 Tour of Britain Women race route:

Stage 1 – Thursday 6 June 2024: Welshpool to Llandudno

Stage 2 – Friday 7 June 2024: Wrexham

Stage 3 – Saturday 8 June 2024: Warrington

Stage 4 – Sunday 9 June 2024: Greater Manchester: National Cycling Centre to Leigh

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Relegation watch - Movistar drop to 18th in UCI WorldTour team rankings

Automatic invites for top two ProTeams pit Israel-Premier Tech against TotalEnergies

In the week since the end of the Tour de France, there have been four races that have had an impact on the UCI World Rankings for 2020-2022, the all-important number that will determine which 18 teams will be eligible for the WorldTour in 2023. With some key results from BikeExchange-Jayco and EF Education-EasyPost, it's Movistar who find themselves dipping to the bottom of the 'safe' zone.

This week's movement is thanks largely to the idiosyncrasies of the rules where only the top 10 scoring riders of the year count toward the team rankings. Read more about how the UCI WorldTour points system works . Lotto Soudal and Israel-Premier Tech remain in the relegation zone, although the Belgian team took advantage of the Tour de Wallonie on home soil to continue to claw their way out of the danger zone, earning 110 points thanks to Arnaud De Lie's stage win and Maxim Van Gils' seventh place and Harm Vanhoucke's 12th in the overall.

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Israel-Premier Tech, in comparison, gained only 64 points in the same period mainly because the riders who scored the most weren't in their top 10. Giacomo Nizzolo's results, a stage win at the 2.1-ranked Vuelta a Castilla y Leon and 15th on GC, and Carl Frederik Hagen's minor placings counted, but Jenthe Bierman's 30 points for eighth on GC did not. Omer Goldstein's ninth place moved him onto the team's top 10 and earned 40 points - dropping Krists Neiland's points out of their total. Lotto Soudal and Israel-Premier Tech are separated by a thin margin of just 157 points but they have over 4,000 on TotalEnergies, whose hopes of moving into the WorldTour are fading fast. The next rung up - 18th place - is 763 points away and now held by the Movistar Team.

The rest of the WorldTour teams can't let their guard down but they should be breathing a little easier now that the gap to 19th is growing. EF Education-EasyPost, Cofidis, BikeExchange-Jayco and Movistar are separated by just 180 points but that gap will yawn out during the Vuelta a España unless Lotto Soudal or Israel can pull off a major GC result.

Movistar dipped below both BikeExchange-Jayco and EF Education-EasyPost into 18th because only four of their top 10 riders scored points. With some major home races coming up, like the Vuelta a Burgos and the Vuelta a España, they will more than likely build on their tally and not drop that far in the rankings.

After struggling during the Tour de France, the team were mid-pack this week thanks to Alex Aranburu's 50 points between Circuito de Getxo (40 for sixth) and his second in stage 1 of Tour de Wallonie, worth 10. Alejandro Valverde picked up 25 in Getxo for ninth, and Anthony Pedrero gained 24 for 19th in San Sebastian.

BikeExchange-Jayco, meanwhile, had a strong week with Simon Yates winning the overall Vuelta a Castilla y Leon and a stage and a sixth place in the Clasica San Sebastian that together earned 279 of the team's 287 points this week. They lead Movistar by an estimated 68 points.

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EF Education-EasyPost built upon their Tour de France momentum by climbing over Cofidis into 15th, although it's by a miniscule 6 points. Georg Steinhauser's 25th place at Circuito de Getxo (3 pt), James Shaw's 70 for sixth in Tour de Wallonie and Jonathan Caicedo's 60 from Castilla y Leon didn't count since they're not in the team's top 10.

Rigoberto Urán's 80 points for ninth place in San Sebastian, Esteban Chavez's 27 points between Castilla y Leon (3 for 25th on GC) and Ben Healy's 10 points for 15th on GC in Wallonie made up their point haul this week.

The real battle will be fought for which two ProTeams will be the top two ranked at the end of 2022 and get the honour of automatic invitations to the major races like the Tour de France. It's been Arkéa-Samsic and Alpecin-Deceuninck for the past two years but those two teams soared up the 2020-2023 rankings and will more than likely be in the WorldTour.

Whoever is relegated, assuming they will continue as a ProTeam, as Lotto Soudal have indicated they would, will be up against the wall for results through October - and not only results in general, but results from their top 10 riders.

Lotto Soudal are in a comfortable position this year, currently 12th in the 2022 rankings and an 852-point lead over the next-ranked current ProTeam, TotalEnergies. Israel-Premier Tech have 433 points to make up to get over the French team. The Vuelta a España will be extremely important for the team's future.

Movistar, BikeExchange-Jayco, EF Education-EasyPost, Team DSM and Astana are all behind TotalEnergies so far this year - all the more motivation to keep an eye on the points and not dip behind Lotto Soudal in the three-year stats.

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Jim stracka | may 14, 2024.

Welcome to Power Rankings, a weekly feature on SI Golf from our partners at KeyCompete . This week the golf world has landed in Valhalla for the 2024 PGA Championship, and an elite field is set to tee off. Here’s how our model sees this week’s event event shaping up:

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Designed by Jack Nicklaus and opened in 1986, Valhalla has a rich history and presents a formidable test. Recent renovations have further enhanced the course's beauty and playability, ensuring that it remains a favorite among players and spectators alike. The par-71 will play at 7,609 yards this week. Here are 10 players our model likes this week. 

KeyCompete’s 2024 PGA Championship Power Rankings ( Odds from DraftKings )

1.  Scottie Scheffler (+400) - The new dad and World No. 1 arrives at Valhalla as the undisputed man to beat.

2.  Rory McIlroy (+700) - Hard to believe his last major title came here in 2014. Fresh off a win at the Wells Fargo, things appear to be clicking at the perfect time to end his major drought.

3.  Xander Schauffele (+1400) - Hung in with Rory at Wells Fargo and no shame in falling short. Due to win his first major. This could be the week.

4.  Brooks Koepka (+1400) - Four-time major champion thrives in the spotlight , and Valhalla presents an ideal stage for his aggressive style. Should be a factor.

5.  Ludvig Aberg (+1800) - Surprised at Augusta and his fearless approach and prodigious talent should make him a factor again at Valhalla.

6.  Jon Rahm (+1600) - Enters with a chip on his shoulder after lackluster showing as defending champion at the Masters. Top 10 in every LIV golf event so far this year.

7.  Bryson DeChambeau (+2500) - Contended all weekend at Augusta and has had a solid season on LIV. Power and accuracy will play well at Valhalla.

8.  Wyndham Clark (+3500) - Arguably the Tour’s third-best player this year behind Scheffler and McIlroy. Another player with a power game to handle Valhalla.

9.  Collin Morikawa (+2500) - The 2020 PGA Championship winner features his trademark ball-striking and cool demeanor. Couldn’t hang with Scheffler at Augusta but only missed a couple of shots that Sunday.

10.  Cameron Smith (+3500) - Creativity and resilience make him a formidable competitor. Quiet top 10 at Augusta. 

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The women’s Olympic Golf Ranking has seen some movement in recent weeks, particularly inside the top 15. While Team USA’s Nelly Korda has a firm grasp on the No. 1 spot, both in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings and the Olympic standings, several players have moved in and fallen out of the top 15 since the LPGA Tour last competed at the JM Eagle LA Championship in late April.

American Alison Lee, who held the 15th spot in the rankings on April 29 and was Team USA’s fourth representative in the top 15, dropped out of the most recent top 60 standings, replaced by Dewi Weber of the Netherlands, who currently is No. 52 in the standings.

Lee was knocked out of the top 15 by Sweden’s Maja Stark, a player whose back-to-back runner-up finishes at The Chevron Championship and the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro propelled her to No. 15 in the Rolex Rankings. Stark now stands as the highest-ranked Swedish player in the Olympic Golf Ranking and sits ahead of Linn Grant, who is currently No. 21 in the Olympic standings and No. 30 in the world.

South Korea also suffered a shake up after Amy Yang slipped out of the top 15 in the Rolex Rankings a couple of weeks ago, dropping the country from three representatives to just two players currently qualified for the Paris Olympics, Jin Young Ko and Hyo Joo Kim. China and Australia are the only other two countries with two or more players in the top 15 of the Olympic Golf Ranking. Only the United States is poised to have more than two representatives in the field, with three players inside the top 15 of the OGR (with a limit of four): Korda, No. 2 Lilia Vu and No. 14 Megan Khang.

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While he has yet to crack the top 60 in the men’s OGR, Canada’s Taylor Pendrith was another big mover in the rankings after a breakthrough victory at THE CJ CUP. Like South Korea, Canada’s hopefuls – especially those vying for the coveted second position – are tightly bunched. Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin currently occupy the top two spots, but Corey Conners, Mackenzie Hughes and most recently Pendrith remain in striking position, particularly of Hadwin’s current position in second.

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The ins and outs of UCI Rankings

As every cycling fan knows, whenever a rider crosses the finish line of a race, there are not just the results, the prizes and the possible prestige to consider and, hopefully, celebrate. For a rider, as well as his or her team and nation, there are also UCI points at stake.

Ever since cycling’s first season-long classification system, the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, was introduced back in 1948, ranking systems have had their purpose and place in the sport. For the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo, for instance, named after the longstanding Tour de France and Giro d’Italia directors of the time, the main aim was to increase participation by riders from two of the era’s dominating nations, Italy and France, in their rival country’s stage races.

Ironically, though, the 1948 Desgrange-Colombo was captured not by a Frenchman or Italian, but by a Belgian Classics great, multiple Ronde van Vlaanderen-Tour des Flandres winner Alberic ‘Iron Briek’ Schotte!

Fast forward to 2021, and the UCI World Rankings, both for Elite and Under 23 categories for men and women, continue to be extremely important – not least counting towards nations’ quotas for the UCI Road World Championships and Olympic Games - and, like the 1948 rankings, create some intriguing results.

Nowadays, for example, the highest classified UCI ProTeam in the UCI Europe Tour - and therefore in the UCI World Rankings - is guaranteed a spot in all UCI WorldTour events including the three Grand Tours the following year, representing both a significant recognition of the squad’s performances and a huge bonus to any team. But, interestingly, the top-ranked rider in the 2020 Men’s Individual UCI World Ranking was neither, as some observers might expect, that year’s Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) nor France’s Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick-Step), who conquered the UCI Road World Championships road race. Rather it was Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma)!

The obvious answer, perhaps, to why Roglič could pull off such an important achievement was by maintaining top-level consistency throughout the year. The same, clearly, goes for 2020 Women’s Individual UCI World Ranking winner, the Netherlands’ Anna van der Breggen (Boels Dolmans Cyclingteam, now Team SD Worx). The much less obvious reason is the actual breakdown of results, and points, that contributed to their overall leaderships, without, in Roglič’s case, taking either the biggest stage race and one-day race of the season on offer.

The latter’s UCI points total was amassed in multiple races, from a personal maximum single gain of 850 points for capturing the overall classification of the Vuelta Ciclista a España to a minimum of three points received for leading a Class 1 race, the Tour de l’Ain in France, for one day. (He also, for the record, gained a further 125 for winning the Tour de l’Ain outright).

In Van der Breggen’s case, victory in the UCI World Championships road race netted her a top single total of 600 points, while at the other end of the scale, leading the IV Setmana Ciclista Valenciana in Spain for two stages gained her a lone point each day. (Like Roglič at the Tour de l’Ain, Van de Breggen also won Setmana Ciclista Valenciana outright, garnering a further 40 points).

Both the Women’s and Men’s UCI World Rankings consist of three separate classifications: Individual, Teams and Nations. At this point, it should be clarified that other UCI road classifications, for example for the five UCI Continental Circuits, also exist. But with one notable exception in women’s racing, they should almost all be considered sub-sections for these three main worldwide ones: Individual, Teams and Nations Rankings. These other classifications include the nations’ U23 rankings for men and women, and those exclusive to men’s road racing such as the One Day Race UCI World Ranking and Stage Race UCI World Ranking.

Two of the three UCI World Rankings - Nations and Individual - are based on a 52-week, rolling classification. So when Paris-Nice 2021 comes around, for example, the points gained by riders in 2020 in Paris-Nice disappear, and are replaced by the points from this year’s race. But the third classification, the Teams ranking, is based on the points allotted only within a single road racing season, to individual riders in that squad. The season officially starts the day after the last UCI WorldTour event of the calendar year.

For the Men Elite, the Teams UCI World Ranking is based on the points netted by the squad’s ten top riders,  while the Nations UCI World Ranking is based on the points of that country’s nationality top eight-ranked individuals, regardless of their professional team. The Women Elite Teams UCI World Ranking is based on a squad’s top eight riders and the Nations UCI World Ranking on the top five from that country.

Points can be won at all events registered on the UCI International Road Calendar, although the number up for grabs varies greatly from race to race. In Elite Men, victory in the Tour de France brings the biggest single haul of points: 1000, compared to 850 for the Giro d’Italia or the Vuelta Ciclista a España. In one-day racing, the maximum total is earned at the UCI Road World Championships and Olympics road race, both worth 600. But across the board, everything counts.

Under-23 races, although bringing fewer points, also form part of the global ranking, as do Continental and National Championships. A race’s team time trial points are divided among those riders completing the course, too and that includes those racing in the recently inaugurated team time trial mixed relay at the UCI Road World Championships, worth a comparatively high 300 points for first place. Secondary classifications in Grand Tours, such as the King of the Mountains and Points also count as does leading a stage race or winning a stage (for example the winner of a stage of the Tour de France earns 120 points).

Interestingly, for Women Elite racing, rather than a stage race it’s victory in the Olympics or UCI Road World Championships that brings the highest total of points for a single win - 600. Meanwhile, a win in a UCI Women’s WorldTour event, be it the final overall of a stage race or a triumph in a one-day Classic, garners the maximum number of points on offer from all other types of races: 400.

Leading a stage race counts for points, but so too - and this is different from the Elite Men - does leading the UCI Women’s WorldTour Ranking. This is a completely separate classification, in which the leader wears a magenta-coloured jersey. Logically, only points awarded in UCI Women’s WorldTour races count towards this ranking.

There are also two other rankings in the UCI Women’s WorldTour: best Under 23 rider, who also wears a distinctive jersey (blue), and a teams ranking. All these classifications are season-long, and the points gained are reset to zero at the beginning of the following season. Only UCI Women’s WorldTour events count towards these three rankings for the series.

Another completely separate set of UCI Rankings are the UCI Nations Rankings for the three UCI Nations’ Cups (Men U23, Men Junior and Women Junior). These see nations battle over the season, highlighting the development of their young athletes, some of whom will later appear in the top 10 of the UCI World Rankings:  Colombian Egan Bernal and Slovenian Tadej Pogačar are both former winners of the final round of the UCI Nations’ Cup Under 23, the Tour de l’Avenir.

For fans, though, the million-dollar question about all of these classifications, is: who is leading? The answer to that can be found on the road rankings page of the UCI website, updated every Tuesday during the season.