With the Tour de France performed a take a look at the UCI World Tour promotion and relegation standings. If you wish to save a click on then stage wins for Astana and Arkéa-B&B Inns didn’t make a distinction. In truth they misplaced floor in July
We’re now approaching the opening of the switch season when new hires for subsequent yr may be introduced and that is all of the extra essential with 2025 because the final of the three yr cycle.
Promotion, relegation?
A fast reminder that groups might be ranked by the sum complete of their factors from every of 2023, 2024 and 2025 and the top-18 groups qualify on sporting phrases for a WorldTeam licence and this provides them computerized entry to the Tour de France, the golden ticket.
First simply take a look at the highest. UAE maintain pushing the x-axis out. With over 26,000 factors for 2024 they’re on greater than double the subsequent workforce. Tadej Pogačar has over 9,000 factors to his identify however two thirds are right down to the remainder. Seven, together with neo-pro Isaac del Toro, have greater than 1,000 factors every. Even with out Pogačar they’d nonetheless have extra factors than Visma-LAB.
Going up
Promotion candidates IPT and Lotto-Dstny are on target to get again within the World Tour, the previous is shopping for in additional expertise for the long run whereas the latter has a superb pipeline from its U23 workforce simply so long as it will possibly fend off rival squads but it surely’s performed with this with Flemish climber Jarno Widnar who is only one yr out of the junior ranks and has gained virtually each main U23 stage race going thus far this yr besides the mighty Ronde de l’Isard… the place he completed second.
Taking place
In the meantime the standings nonetheless present Arkéa-B&B Inns and Astana languishing under the crimson line. They loved a profitable Tour because of a stage win every. These triumphs are big and mentioning the factors is borderline petty because the 210 level reward isn’t commensurate.
Arkéa’s Vauquelin acquired the stage win they craved for thus lengthy and had a good time trial within the Beaujolais however was lacking in motion within the mountains whereas Arnaud Démare was solely as soon as within the combine for a dash win and duly acquired relegated, forfeiting the factors. So that they’re now over 1,500 factors adrift, additional away than after the Giro.
Astana pulled off a memorable win for Mark Cavendish however “Challenge 35” has been the equal of portray a masterpiece fresco on a wall susceptible to collapse. After the Giro they have been 2,500 factors away from security, they’re now 3,300 factors adrift. Chinese language bike model XDS is investing within the workforce and this might assist them signal riders who can rating for them subsequent yr. This brief time period plan is a approach out however they’ve signed riders like Lorenzo Fortunato, Ide Schelling and Anthon Charmig to do that job in 2024 and this trio have 376 factors between them… Schelling and Charmig haven’t scored. Hiring riders is one factor however having teaching employees, coaching camps and assets to help the supply of outcomes counts too.
18th place = security
Within the absence of a relegation battle DSM Firmenich-PostNL stay 18th. Star signing Fabio Jakobsen is greater than a contender, alas, for flop of the season. This isn’t meant as a swipe, somewhat he’s simply been such a stable sprinter however now has challenges simply attending to the ultimate kilometre.
Cofidis are been good at scoring earlier than however they’re stalling thus far this yr and it’s doable the Dutch workforce leapfrogs them. The French workforce is in an attention-grabbing place as a result of it has no improvement workforce to provide expertise and its two greatest scorers Axel Zingle and Guillaume Martin are leaving. It must recruit properly.
Each groups although nonetheless have a cushion above the relegation crimson line, there’s but to be the drama of the 2020-2022 relegation battle.
This chart exhibits the distinction within the rankings for 2024 between 16 July and 23 July, successfully the Tour de France factors haul. You possibly can see Astana and Arkéa’s issues the place a stage win was good however they struggled for extra. It additionally illustrates the phantom Excursions of Crimson Bull, Decathlon-Ag2r and Groupama-FDJ.
2025 is essential
One of the best two ProTeams on the UCI rankings on the finish of yr get computerized invitations to the Tour de France and different main races subsequent yr. This implies IPT and Lotto-Dstny now however think about at the moment’s factors state of affairs transposed into 2026. IPT and Lotto could be again within the World Tour, Arkéa and Astana relegated. Computerized invites would go to Arkéa and Uno-X.
With relegation wanting more and more probably for Arkéa and Astana, this secondary contest to prime the rankings in 2025 issues because it units up a delicate relegation, out of the World Tour however nonetheless qualifying though yr to yr somewhat than routinely.
If they’ll get relegated due to weak 2023 and 2024 seasons then can they get sufficient factors through the course of 2025 to change into computerized picks? If not then the corollary is then whether or not they can signal star riders or have some distinctive promoting level to win wild card invitations forward of squads like Tudor and Q36.5. Tudor particularly are taking part in a intelligent lengthy recreation right here.
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