The Australian Cycling World Championship it is history. An edition of the World Cup marked by the efforts of the participating runners and the medals won is behind us now, but also by the delicate situation that many teams are going through and which has prompted them not to let some of their star up to Australiain a world where the cyclists, despite running for their national teams, added points for their respective teams.
A controversial situation that has caused more than one sleepless night for many team managers, but has been known for a long time, since this story began to be written at the beginning of the 2020 season, when teams already knew that the 18 achieved the maximum number of points will meet the criteria established by International Cycling Union (UCI) to enjoy the license world tour from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025.
And, after the World Cup, and waiting this Tuesday to start the cro-racethe two teams with the darkest future are Lotto Soudal and the IIsrael-Premier Techwith the Cofidis, Arkéa, EF Education, BikeExchange, Movistar and DSM to take a step forward to avoid relegation.
They all know how to reorient the ship by looking at the wolf’s ears. Movistar changed its policy and thanks to Lap and in the good paper of Enrique More and to the beautiful performances of alex aramburu in ‘minor’ races, among others, he climbs until he can breathe easy. It is true that the season is not over yet and there are still races that distribute a lot of points, such as Lombardybut the X-ray this Monday could be definitive.
THIS IS THE CLASSIFICATION
1. Jumbo-Visma: 37,247.17 points
2.Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team: 35.356.37
3. Ineos Grenadiers: 34,770.99
4. UAE Team Emirates: 32,793.66
5.Bora-Hansgrohe: 24.531.5
6. Bahrain-Victorius: 23,694
7. Groupama-FDJ: 21,018
8.Alpecin-Deceuninck: 20.746.67
9.Trek-Segafredo: 19.934.33
10. Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert: 18,993
11.AG2R Citroën Team: 17.238.33
12. Astana Qazaqstan team: 16,819
13. Team Arkéa-Samic: 16,083*
14. Team DSM: 15.985.71
15. Movistar Team: 15,880
16.Team Bike Exchange-Jayco: 15.833.5
17.EF Education-Easypsot: 15,632.65
18. Cofidis: 15,483
19. Lotto-Soudal: 14,590**
20. Israel-Premier Tech: 13,549.66**
21. Total Energy: 10,076**
22.One-X Pro Cycling Team: 6,830.29**
* Waiting to see if the UCI will deduct Nairo Quintana’s points from the Tour team after testing positive for tramadol
** Teams that will not get a World Tour license in 2023
*** Data taken from https://lanternerouge.com.au/
Source: La Verdad
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