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Tour of Britain 2023: Rodriguez wins final stage, Van Aert takes GC

Results 8th stage 2023 Tour of Britain

1. Carlos Rodriguez (spa) 2. Wout van Aert (bel) + 0.11 3. Damien Howson (aus) s.t. 4. Tobias Halland Johannessen (nor) s.t. 4. Magnus Sheffield (usa) s.t. 9. Nils Politt (ger) + 0.30 6. Zeb Kyffin (gbr) + 0.31 5. Mark Donovan (gbr) s.t. 7. Gregor Mühlberger (aut) s.t. 8. Kamil Bonneu (bel) s.t.

Final GC 2023 Tour of Britain

1. Wout van Aert (bel) 2. Tobias Halland Johannessen (nor) + 0.03 3. Damien Howson (aus) s.t. 4. Magnus Sheffield (usa) s.t. 5. Mark Donovan (gbr) + 0.23 6. Zeb Kyffin (gbr) s.t. 7. Gregor Mühlberger (aut) s.t. 8. Kamil Bonneu (bel) s.t. 9. Nils Politt (ger) + 0.28 10. Carlos Rodríguez (spa) s.t.

Race report Breakaway riders Johan Meens, Oliver Wood, James Fouché, Casper van Uden, Abram Stockman and Max Walker carve out a 3.30 minutes lead.

Meens heads out alone with 52 kilometres to go. Moments later Carlos Rodriguez and Stephen Williams overhaul him and the two open up a lead of 1 minute.

The two are almost caught in the first ascent of Caerphilly Mountain. Which inspires Rodriguez to head on his own. He is first to the top of Caerphilly Mountain second time around.

Van Aert pulls the chase group, but the Spaniard stays out in front. He wins the race 11 seconds ahead of Van Aert, who seals the GC win.

Another interesting read: route 8th stage 2023 Tour of Britain.

Tour of Britain 2023 – stage 8: route, profile, more

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• Date: 07 September 2023
• Start time: 11:00 (12:00 CET)
• Avg. speed winner: 44.386 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 192.4 km
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• Vert. meters: 1000
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Tour of Britain stage 5: Wout van Aert powers to victory with final kilometre attack

Jumbo-Visma dominance continues in a different flavour as Olav Kooij repays his teammate

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Wout van Aert won stage 5 of the Tour of Britain

A final-kilometre attack from Wout van Aert earned Jumbo-Visma their fifth win in a row at the Tour of Britain , with four-time stage winner Olav Kooij handing over victory to his invaluable lead-out rider in Felixstowe.

The whole squad taking a wrong turn on a roundabout in the final 10km threatened to let a team other than Jumbo-Visma win a stage of this year’s race, but the yellow and black jerseys were soon back at the front of the peloton, leading into a late flyer for Van Aert.

Ethan Vernon (Great Britain) took second from the bunch ahead of Danny van Poppel (Bora-Hansgrohe) in third. Van Aert’s small gap on the line will see him move into the race lead with three days remaining.

Joey Rosskopf (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Abram Stockman (TDT-Unibet) and Callum Ormiston (Global 6 Cycling) had been up the road for most of the 192km stage, but were brought back before the final.

“I’m feeling really happy of course,” Van Aert said after taking what was only his second road win of the year. “It’s always tricky to make a plan like that, and if you can execute it like this it’s a lot of satisfaction. Another great day for the team, and I’m really, really proud of this one.

“Yesterday evening we had a look at the final corners, talking about the lead-out, and first I came up with [the plan to attack] as a joke slash idea, and we started to think about it. We knew even if someone would respond immediately that the bunch would still be stretched out and Olav would still have a good chance of winning the sprint, so we tried something else.

“I think that’s a nice thing about cycling, enough times it’s boring and you can expect what’s going to happen, so it’s nice to spice things up.”

A change in result after four similar stages

Stage 5 of the Tour of Britain headed to the east of England, starting and finishing in Felixstowe and taking in a 192km loop around Suffolk, making it the longest stage of this year’s race.

As with many of the stages, the day kicked off with a fast battle for the breakaway. Five riders got away fairly quickly, with King of the Mountains leader James Fouché (Bolton Equities Black Spoke) joined by Harry Birchill (Saint Piran), Kamil Małecki (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Hartthijs De Vries (TDT-Unibet) and Jack Brough (Great Britain). However, unlike the preceding stages, the peloton were not particularly keen for this group to get too far ahead, keeping the gap very small before catching them again before the first climb after just 20km of racing.

Fouché still managed to crest the climb first to add to his KoM lead, but missed out on the next break that went. The new group was made up of Joey Rosskopf (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Abram Stockman (TDT-Unibet) and Callum Ormiston (Global 6 Cycling). This move was allowed to go, and the trio soon had a three-minute lead as the situation finally calmed down.

Stockman won both the KoM and the intermediate sprint, and then from there the race was very quiet with no more point-scoring opportunities in the 127km remaining. Naturally, it was once again Jumbo-Visma who were controlling things, but they were clearly feeling a little more generous towards the break on a sunny day in Suffolk.

After a long stretch of very little happening, the peloton finally started to ramp up the chase going into the final 40km, and the gap gradually began to shrink. It was down to 30 seconds with 24km remaining, with Ineos Grenadiers glued to the wheels of the Jumbo riders charged with closing the gap. Olav Kooij and Wout van Aert were not seen putting their noses in the win at any time during the chase, showing just how much they’ve been able to save for the sprint finishes this week.

Ormiston was the first to drop out of the break, with 20km to go, followed by Stockman, whilst Rosskopf pushed on for the longest, holding on valiantly until he was caught with 5km to go.

Approaching the finale, some teams did try to get in the way of Jumbo-Visma’s lead-out, but it was an error on a roundabout with 7km to go - where the Jumbo train went the wrong way - that really caused the Dutch team some problems, but they soon found their way back to the front for the finale.

Van Aert was on the front of the peloton heading into the final kilometre, appearing to be setting up another sprint for Kooij, but going into one of last corners Kooij slightly grabbed the breaks round the bend, slowing up the peloton and letting Van Aert accelerate away from the bunch. A moment of hesitation from the peloton and the blocking action from the slowing Jumbo riders allowed Van Aert to get an immediate jump, which the strong Belgian was able to hold all the way to the line, holding off the sprinting peloton behind.

It was Ethan Vernon who sprinted to second just ahead of Danny van Poppel, with Kooij out of the placings for the first time this race, instead sitting up across the line to celebrate yet another win for his team, this time a result of not just strength but a successful tactical play.

The first rider to finish with any kind of time gap, Van Aert goes into the race lead - taking the jersey from Kooij - three seconds ahead of Vernon and Max Kanter (Movistar) on the virtual podium.

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Tour of Britain - Stage 5

• Dates 7 Sept
• Race Length 192 kms
• Start Felixstowe
• Finish Felixstowe
• Race Category Elite Men

Jumbo-Visma

• Nationality Netherlands
• Founded 1984
• Team Principal Richard Plugge
• UCI Code TJV
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• Nationality Belgium
• UCI Wins 46
• Height 1.9m

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This is the general page of the Tour of Britain 2021 , here you can see a summary of the race (the winners of one of each rankings, the leaders, jerseys or who won the points classification, when it starts, who is the leader, where to follow live, etc...), schedules and cities where race pass through (including when the mountain and time trial stages), where to watch it and also with the dropouts and withdrawals , and of course the positions and results in the general standing of your favorite cyclists (Remember to check the teams they run on). Everything so that you do not miss any of the best cycling live races of the season.

Stage 1 - Flat

Bodmin (Stage 1 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Penzance -> Bodmin

05-09-2021 Start : 11:15:00 - End : 15:33:00

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Stage 2 - Medium Mountain

Exeter (Stage 2 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Sherford -> Exeter

06-09-2021 Start : 11:15:00 - End : 15:37:00

Stage 3 - Team Time Trial

National Botanic Garden of Wales (Stage 3 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Llandeilo -> National Botanic Garden of Wales

07-09-2021 Start : 13:05:00 - End : 14:58:00

Stage 4 - Mountain

Llandudno (Stage 4 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Aberaeron -> Llandudno

08-09-2021 Start : 10:45:00 - End : 15:45:00

Stage 5 - Flat

Warrington (Stage 5 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Alderley Park -> Warrington

09-09-2021 Start : 11:45:00 - End : 15:22:00

Stage 6 - Mountain

Gateshead (Stage 6 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Carlisle -> Gateshead

10-09-2021 Start : 11:00:00 - End : 15:42:00

Stage 7 - Medium Mountain

Edinburgh (Stage 7 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Hawick -> Edinburgh

11-09-2021 Start : 11:00:00 - End : 15:38:00

Stage 8 - Medium Mountain

Aberdeen (Stage 8 - Tour of Britain 2021)"> Stonehaven -> Aberdeen

12-09-2021 Start : 10:45:00 - End : 14:52:00

Frequent questions about Tour of Britain 2021

When it began to dispute this race.

The first time was in the year 1945 and this edition is number 80

How many kilometers are covered? And stages?

1314 km are covered in a total of 8 stage/s

What day begins? How long does it last?

It starts on 05-09-2021 in Penzance and ends on 12-09-2021 in Aberdeen

How many teams and cyclists participate?

A total of 107 cyclists and 18 teams . Click on this link to see more

What UCI category does this race have?

UCI Pro Series (Various stages) 2.Pro

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Tour of britain 2022 overview.

When is Tour of Britain: 10 stages from September 4 to September 11

How long is Tour of Britain : 1,352.1km

Where does the race start: Aberdeen

Where does it finish: The Needles

The latest results from Tour of Britain

The organisers of the  Tour of Britain , SweetSpot, announced the cancellation of the final three stages of the race following the death of Queen Elizabeth ll on Thursday, September 8. 

SweetSpot issued a first statement upon the conclusion of stage 5 in Mansfield, announcing that it had cancelled stage 6 from Tewkesbury to Gloucester, and later announced the cancellation of stage 7 from West Bay to Ferndown and stage 8 from Ryde to The Needles.

Gonzalo Serrano ( Movistar ), who was leading the overall classification at the conclusion of stage 5, was announced as the overall winner of the 2022 Tour of Britain. Tom Pidcock and Omar Fraile , both Ineos Grenadiers , finished second and third overall, respectively.

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Tour of Britain 2022 Information

The Tour of Britain kicks off on September 4 offering the peloton a 1,352.1km of racing across eight stages that concludes on September 11 at The Needles.

Rich in history, it is a prominent stage race that has its origins back in 1945. However, the current version of the Tour of Britain, not organised by SweetSpot, began in 2004. 

The multi-day event was registered at the 2.1-level but moved up to the 2.HC status in 2014, and then 2.Pro ranks in 2020, though cancelled that year due to COVID-19. While the event has never made the jump up to WorldTour, it remains as one of the most prestigious events of Great Britain.

Champions of the modern Tour of Britain include last year's winner Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel (2019), Julian Alaphilippe (2018), Lars Boom (2011 and 2017), Steven Cummings (2016) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (2009 and 2015), Bradley Wiggins (2013), and Dylan van Baarle (2014). 

Tour of Britain Stages

• Stage 1 - Aberdeen to Glenshee Ski Centre, 181.3km
• Stage 2 - Hawick to Duns, 175.2km
• Stage 3 - Durham to Sunderland, 163.6km
• Stage 4 - Redcar to Duncombe Park, Helmsley, 149.5km
• Stage 5 - West Bridgford to Mansfield, 186.8km
• Stage 6 - Tewkesbury to Gloucester, 170.9km
• Stage 7 - West Bay to Ferndown, 175.9km
• Stage 8 - Ryde to The Needles, 148.9km

Tour of Britain Contenders

Positioned annually in September, the Tour of Britain offers many riders an opportunity to contest late-season stage racing and potentially to prepare for the UCI Road World Championships, which are held in Australia from September 17-25.

Defending champion, Wout van Aert and his team Jumbo-Visma are not scheduled to compete in this year's event, however, the eight-day race will feature 18 teams, including five WorldTour teams Ineos Grenadiers , Movistar , Team DSM , Israel-Premier Tech , and Bora-Hansgrohe .

The organisers of the event are yet to confirm the official start list, but they have revealed several key riders that will be participating. 

In his final season before retirement, Australia's Richie Porte will lead Ineos Grenadiers at this year's Tour of Britain. Belgium's Dylan Teuns will lead the GC hopes for his team Israel-Premier Tech. British Cycling will also field a national team led by Connor Swift .

Tour of Britain most successful riders

• Edvald Boasson Hagen (2009 and 2015) won more than one edition of the modern Tour of Britain, and Lars Boom won twice (2011 and 2017).
• Wout van Aert won the most recent edition in 2021
• Julian Alaphilippe and Mathieu van der Poel won the race in 2018 and 2019.
• Mark Cavendish (10) has won the most stages of the race, followed by Boasson Hagen (8) and André Greipel (7).

Tour of Britain Teams

• Ineos Grenadiers
• Israel - Premier Tech
• Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling
• Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB
• Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
• Human Powered Health
• BORA - hansgrohe
• Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè
• Movistar Team
• Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
• Saint Piran
• Global 6 Cycling
• Team Qhubeka
• Great Britain
• Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise
• Trinity Racing

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• Stage 6 | Tewkesbury - Gloucester 2022-09-09 169km
• Stage 7 | West Bay - Ferndown 2022-09-10 180km
• Stage 8 | Ryde - The Needles 2022-09-11 150km

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Just weeks after the Women's World Cup saw the Lionesses lose out to winning team Spain under the helm of Sarina Weigman , there's another sport that's got everyone sitting on the edge of their seats and hanging from their rooftops.

The Tour of Britain is currently halfway through - its eight-stage race that is due to be completed on Sunday 10th September 2023. And sporting fans looking to catch a glimpse of the action, as cyclists race through towns and villages in the UK, will want to know how to watch it....

How to watch the Tour of Britain 2023

You can watch The Tour of Britain in person by checking the latest cycle route and standing on the roadside behind the barriers to see the competitors race by. 

But if you've not got the spare time or resources to do that, then fear not, for ITV4 is exclusively broadcasting all eight stages live from start to finish for the fifth edition running, with a special one-hour highlights show following the coverage each evening. ITV4 is available on Freeview (channel 25), Freesat (channel 117), Sky (channel 120), Virgin Media (channel 118) and the ITV Hub (online) in the UK.

Meanwhile, every stage of the 2023 Tour of Britain will be broadcast on GCN in the UK, while the tour can be watched across Europe (excluding France) ad-free on discovery+ and eurosport.com. 

Tour of Britain route

The Tour of Britain route takes in eight different stages; the first took place on Sunday, 3rd September from Altrincham to Manchester, the second on 4th September covered Wrexham to Wrexham. Stage three on Tuesday 5th September saw riders travel from Goole to Beverley. The fourth leg of the race took place on Wednesday 6th September and saw cyclists race from Sherwood Forest to Newark-On-Trent.

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The remaining four stages will cover the following routes;

• Stage 5 - Felixstowe to Felixstowe on Thursday, 7th September.
• Stage 6 - Southend-on-Sea to Harlow on Friday 8th September.
• Stage 7 - Tewkesbury to Gloucester on Saturday 9th September.
• Stage 8 - the finale - Margam Country Park to Caerphilly on Sunday 10th September.

How does the Tour of Britain work?

The Tour of Britain is a British road bicycle race that takes place over multi-stages in which around 100 participants race across the country to complete the race in the fastest time. 

The event is a historical one and dates back to the first British stage races held just after the Second World War. Each leg of the race starts between 10 and 11am and finishes mid-afternoon, often between 3 and 4pm.

Tour of Britain standings

The Tour of Britain standings is the name given to the positions cyclists have secured on the latest leg of the tour. Stage four of the race was completed on Wednesday (6th September) with the cyclists landing the following positions after completing stage four from sherwood Forest to Newark on Trent in 3hrs and 45 minutes:

• Olav Kooij - team Jumbo-Visma
• Casper Van Uden - team DSM - Firmenich
• Ethan Vernon - Great Britain
• Milan Fretin - Team Flanders - Baloise
• Max Kanter - Movistar Team
• Stian Fredheim - Uno-X-Pro Cycling Team

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Tour of Britain 2023 stage one: Route map and road closures from Altrincham to Manchester

The Tour of Britain 2023 sees a star-studded peloton ride from Altrincham and Manchester on stage one to the route finish at Caerphilly Castle on stage eight, via Wrexham, Sherwood Forest, Southend-on-Sea and much more.

The great Wout van Aert will be on the startline and the Dutch Jumbo-Visma rider, who won this race in 2021, will be one of the biggest draws for cycling fans. He will be joined by talented 21-year-old teammate Olav Kooij in a strong Jumbo line-up.

Ineos Grenadiers provide plenty of home interest, with world and Olympic mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock fronting a team that also includes talented young Spaniard Carlos Rodriguez (fifth at the Tour de France) and Welshman Luke Rowe, riding in his home nation for several of the stages.

Track world champion Ethan Vernon and Tour de Yorkshire stage winner Harry Tanfield will also enjoy home support during the race.

Here is a closer look at the stage one route and road closures.

Stage one map and profile

Road closures.

A rolling road closure will be enforced on each of the stages. This means roads on and around the race route will be closed to traffic for a short period in which it takes the race to pass by – usually about 10 to 15 minutes around the estimated time of arrival and indicated by police escort vehicles.

On stage one there will be several road closures in place around the centre of Altrincham, some of which will be in place from 6pm on Saturday 2 September. This will also lead to parking suspensions in key locations to enable race infrastructure to be set up and following the race removed.

Stage one will finish on Deansgate in the centre of Manchester, causing a number of road closures in the city on Sunday.

Sunday 3 September: roads closed from 5am to 9pm

Water Street - From New Elm Road to Liverpool Road

Liverpool Road - From Water Street to Deansgate

Deansgate - From Whitworth Street West to John Dalton Street

Little Quay Street - From Quay Street to Atkinson Street

Atkinson Street - From Deansgate to Little Quay Street

Quay Street - From Byrom to Deansgate

Peter Street - From Deansgate to Oxford Street

Bootle Street - From Deansgate to Jerusalem Place

Jerusalem Place - From Bootle Street to Peter Street

Lloyd Street - From Deansgate to Southmill Street

Great Bridgewater Street – From Watson Street to Deansgate

Closures for approx. 15 mins between 3.15pm and 4.15pm

Regent Road East Bound - From River Irwell to Trinity Way

Trinity Way - From Regent Road to Water Street

Water Street - From Trinity Way to New Elm Road

Closures for approx. 30 mins between 3.15pm to 4.15pm

Watson Street - From Great Bridgwater to Peter Street

Route timings (predicted)

Market Street | Altrincham 11:45

Wilmslow 12:15

Hazel Grove 12:30

Stalybridge 13:00

Uppermill 13:14

Grains Bar 13:22

Rochdale 13:35

Ramsbottom Rake 13:59

Belmont 14:25

Aspull 14:45

Hindley 14:56

Atherton 15:00

Swinton 15:19

Salford 15:25

Deansgate | Manchester city centre 15:30

The route is marked with yellow advanced warning signs in the run up to the Tour of Britain. Organisers ask not to park along the route on race day.

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‘Monumental effort’ means Women’s Tour of Britain goes ahead in 2024

• Condensed four-stage race begins in Welshpool on 6 June
• Lizzie Deignan: ‘I’m grateful to the people who have pulled it off’

British Cycling has named the host towns for this summer’s Tour of Britain Women after what has been described as “monumental effort” to make sure the race goes ahead.

Ten weeks after the Guardian reported the governing body would organise the race in-house ­following the collapse of SweetSpot group, the outline of the route has been unveiled, with an opening stage starting in Welshpool and finishing in Llandudno on 6 June.

Stage two will start and finish in Wrexham, stage three will begin and end in Warrington, and the final stage will start outside the National Cycling Centre in Manchester and finish in Leigh on 9 June.

This year’s race will be limited to four stages – down from six for the previous edition of the Women’s Tour in 2022 – due to the time ­restrictions British Cycling has faced, but there is an ambition to grow in the future.

Rod Ellingworth, the former ­deputy team principal of the Ineos Grenadiers who joined as race ­director last month, said: “It’s been a monumental effort by the whole team over the past 10 weeks to ­confirm the stages for this year’s Tour of Britain Women.”

The governing body’s chief executive, Jon Dutton, admitted there had been “many” moments in the last 10 weeks where he feared the race might not take place. “I dare say with 52 days to go there will be a few more bumps in the road,” Dutton said.

“We’ve had local authorities, start towns and finish towns who’ve said: ‘We’re in’ and then subsequently said: ‘We’re not in’ and that’s difficult. We’ve always had the idea of a condensed, compact race and when one pulls out that’s an issue across the board.”

British Cycling is also working on the men’s Tour of Britain, with that race due to take place over six days in September rather than the usual eight.

Dutton added that British Cycling is continuing to seek further investment for what he described as two “expensive races”. Much of the money will come from hosting fees and broadcast contracts, close to being agreed but not yet finalised, but there is a need for more commercial revenue.

All six of the UK’s UCI ­Continental level teams have signed up for the women’s race, and the former world champion Lizzie Deignan will swap her Lidl-Trek jersey for Britain ­ colours to lead a national squad.

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“Sometimes it’s easy to ­underestimate how much it takes to put on a race so I’m really grateful to the people who have pulled it off against the odds,” Deignan said.

The 35-year-old wants to use the race to prepare for a busy summer which will hopefully include the Paris Olympics, but admitted the broken arm she suffered in a crash at last month’s Tour of Flanders had come at a bad time.

“The main concern for me is it’s during Olympic selection time so I’ve missed a good chunk of races I was peaking for in terms of getting selected,” said Deignan. “There’s plenty of time until the Olympics itself to get fit and ready, but selection is harder than it’s ever been so it’s obviously bad timing.”

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World Tour Promotion-Relegation Rankings

What do you see in the picture above? Three cyclists on a podium? The Flèche Wallonne podium? Right now some team managers see 400, 320 and 260 UCI points as they and their teams aim for promotion to the World Tour or worse, stress about relegation.

An update on the promotion and relegation standings as we’re now about halfway through the three year cycle. The relegation contest is raging and if it’s not front page news, well you’re already reading a niche blog about the sport so you’ll probably be thinking of this contest when looking at results in the coming months…

Relegation reminder It’s a three year process between 2023-2025 based on the sum of each team’s rankings for each year. The top-18 teams qualify for a World Tour place, a World Tour team below 18th place faces relegation. Riders score UCI points with race results and a team’s ranking is based on the total of its 20 best scorers.

Here are the current standings for this week. We’re almost exactly halfway now in the three year promotion/relegation cycle because the season is lop-sided with more points in the first half of the year than the second half thanks to a denser calendar and more World Tour events. The red line signifies the promotion-relegation barrier.

Let’s start with a quick look at the top of the table. UAE lead to the point of distorting the chart, if they weren’t so far ahead on the x-axis the gaps between others lower down would look wider. So here is the scoring for 2024 only, WorldTeams in blue, selected Proteams in red:

We can see Visma-Lease A Bike’s relative woes here, last spring all that was missing was the Ronde and Roubaix and they rightly made plans to fix this, now they’re well short of rivals UAE and instead scoring similar to Lidl-Trek and Alpecin-Deceuninck, top table but not table-topping. Bahrain start the year with a big cushion but have not been scoring much.

Promotion candidates Lotto-Dstny and Israel-PremierTech scored well in 2023 and have kept on doing so, even if the Belgian squad didn’t score big with Arnaud De Lie this spring because of injury and illness. Both are consistently scoring more than some World Tour teams.

Uno-X are the best of the rest and have expressed ambition to move up but start from behind this season and need to score more, they’re roughly 3,000 points short of the red line today.

Relegation battle Going to the relegation battle Arkéa-B&B Hotels and Astana are below the line. Both started the season in 19th and 20th place but Astana have scored few points since, Alexey Lutsenko won the Giro d’Abruzzo but it’s a 2.1 race and his GC and stage placing haul brought 150 points; team mates Christian Scaroni and Simone Velasco have scored more placing here and there. Collectively they don’t yet have 20 riders with UCI points.

Arkéa have picked up speed lately, this year they’re they 11th best team but hampered by last year’s bad start. New signings Arnaud Démare and Florian Sénéchal haven’t been scoring much, instead Luca Mozzato is their big winner with over 1,000 points today with 640 from finishing second in the Ronde.

DSM Firmenich-PostNL is only 500 points above the relegation line. Two of their three top scorers Oscar Onley and Warren Barguil are now out with injuries. After Astana they’re the other team not to have 20 riders scoring. It’s not a big deal if a team has a 20th rider with 1 point, it’s more about the top scorers but shows how they’re all finding it hard going to score. They need a good Giro, with Fabio Jakobsen, Romain Bardet and Max Poole able to score. The Firmenich corporate merger and the arrival of PostNL has come with talk of budget increases so they could buy themselves out of trouble too.

If Astana have the lowest score this season, of the current 18 World Tour teams next come Cofidis. They look only have a small cushion above DSM and ought to be worried. Top scorer Bryan Coquard’s had a more discreet start to the season but you can see in races he’s having to do more work for himself, the team has lost engines (and scorers) like Max Walscheid. Guillaume Martin is picking up pace.

Movistar can’t be sitting comfortably either. On paper Enric Mas should score in the summer but his traditional Tour-Vuelta combo is risky, a window to score big but it means he often doesn’t score much before and then it is subject to him avoiding illness and injury. Ivan Sosa should pick up some points too.

Outlook There’s still a year and a half to go but Lotto-Dstny and Israel-PremierTech look like solid promotion candidates, they did well last year and have kept this up. If anything they’re improving, Lotto are uncovering more talent like Maxim Van Gils and Lennert Van Eetvelt.

Promotion of two teams comes at the expense of two others and here Astana though have the proverbial uphill battle and to extend the metaphor, not enough climbing power to win it. They looked doomed although Lotto and IPT show relegation isn’t the end of things: if we can see Astana sent down to the ProTeam ranks, the question is really about their long term stability, do there sponsors settle for this? If they can sit 19th or 20th and harvest invitations thanks to some marquee riders it’s a sweetspot.

The other relegation spot is not easy to call from this far out. Arkéa are below the line so the obvious candidates but starting to score wide, DSM ought to have the quality to stay up but sport can be unjust while winless Cofidis look weak all round. So there’s a contest to watch in the coming months.

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Blackmore’s points are countted for IPT?

No, he’s riding for the IPT development team so the points stay with them… puts them above some ProTeams like Polti-Kometa, Kern Pharma etc.

D-AG2R in the 2024 top 5. Some renewed impetus with Decathlon taking the lead maybe?

They certainly stand out in the graphics as best improvers, could be new sponsor buzz, winning momentum or maybe just regression to the mean after a couple of relatively disappointing seasons in 22 & 23

It’s several factors, the new bike has been well received as the old one was getting a bit old but is it for real or placebo, either way it’s something mentioned by the riders. Management knew last season was rotten and tried to refresh things. Plus probably some luck going their way, it happens. Plus on the points side O’Connor and Cosnefroy are scoring as expected but it’s the rest of the team that’s taking plenty of points here and there, their 20th rider Retailleau is on 53 points, no other team except UAE has this depth of scoring.

Nice timing of this (both halfway thru, and after the results at FW) – thanks inrng.

Just wondered – could you colour-code or hatch the bars somehow so that the non-WorldTour (or WorldTour) teams stand out? Would be useful to have the distinction highlighted somehow.

(Also, at risk of over-complicating, might be interesting to see the rankings for the current season. eg a (1) in brackets for UAE after ‘11,840’, perhaps.)

Good ideas.

I was wondering about the relegation competition towards the finale of Fleche. Seeing Uno-X approaching the finish with 4-5 riders still present in the smallish lead group led me to wonder if it was an intentional strategy on their part to get a lot of riders into the top 20 for points.

Yes as the only team with no DNFs they got 220 points total between them, same as 4th place and making them 5th best team on points at mens Fleche

Good insight… hadn’t considered this!

Actually, I heard the Uno-X DS was cloud seeding above Huy to ensure such atrocious weather, knowing that this would eliminate many cold-sensitive riders while leaving their arctic hardmen unfazed. They’re probably hoping for a cold, freezing LBL : )

I feel like if Astana doesn’t make top 20 they won’t get any invites to races. Or at least that’s my hope.

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Steve Wilmot is working the RBC Heritage for the 38 th straight year. Long enough, in fact, that his first tournament was in 1987, when Davis Love III won for the first time.

“Davis has gone on to win this event five times and make it all the way to the Hall of Fame and I’m still sitting here in this double-wide,” said Wilmot, president and tournament director of the RBC Heritage, with a wide smile.

But in all of his years in his post, he’s never received so many requests from players and agents seeking a sponsor invite. As if further proof was necessary, he pulled from his desk a spreadsheet consisting of a handful of pages stapled together where he tracked the performance of all the players who had texted, emailed, and phoned hoping to get into the Heritage now that it is a $20 million signature event with a limited field, no cut (guaranteed payday) and jacked up FedEx Cup points.

Last year, as a designated event, the RBC Heritage field peaked at 150, an increase from 132 and an all-time high. This year, it’s limited to 70 (down to 69 with Viktor Hovland withdrawing over the weekend) and Wilmot’s sponsor invites were chopped in half from eight down to four. He whittled the potential candidates down to 40, to 30 and then 20, personally calling the players to break the bad news.

But he held off on making any announcements about the four Willy Wonka golden ticket winners to play Harbour Town Golf Links this week. The Official World Golf Ranking didn’t update until midnight after the Masters, which impacted some of his decisions, so he waited until Monday morning to announce the four sponsor invites, the latest he’s ever done that.

The four lucky players are Gary Woodland, the 2019 U.S. Open winner who is a sentimental pick after returning from brain surgery last fall; Kevin Kisner, a popular player who once lost the tournament in a playoff and is a South Carolina resident; Shane Lowry, the 2019 British Open champion who has three top-10s in his last five years at this event and seems poised to win the title some day; and Webb Simpson, the 2012 U.S. Open champion, 2018 Players Championship winner, the 2021 RBC Heritage champion, as well as an ambassador with RBC for four years.

Kisner received an exemption into a signature event for the first time while Lowry, who is an ambassador for MasterCard, the presenting sponsor of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, got his second as did Woodland (Genesis Invitational). For Simpson, it is his third and while it isn’t official, you can connect the dots that Simpson, who lives along Quail Hollow Club and is the unofficial host of the Wells Fargo Championship (not to mention that he has the company’s logo on the belly of his golf bag) will receive a fourth exemption next month. That’s the max allowed for a player during a given season.

Simpson’s exemptions have received increased scrutiny (as did an exemption to Peter Malnati at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am before he won and became exempt into the rest of the signature events this season – and to a lesser extent Adam Scott) because all three are player directors on the Tour Policy Board. In February, several players — although none willing to put their name to their words — expressed their disappointment, using words like “fishy” and “shady,” to describe their displeasure with the invites  and suggested the choices either were payback for their unpaid board work or even worse, a payoff for their future vote.

The optics of handing invites to three policy board members at Pebble may have raised some eyebrows in the locker room but the implication that the suits in Ponte Vedra are pulling the strings on those invites is just the latest baseless claim spouted by LIV enthusiasts.

Qualifying for signature events is meant to be a meritocracy, something LIV could still learn from, but the Tour left a few ways to let players who haven’t played up to their usual high standard have a back door so they still can participate. But with the purse at signature events being more than double that of the regular events and guaranteeing both points and a payday, it’s a huge opportunity that can give a player a leg up to qualify for future signature events, to keep one’s card and, potentially, qualify for the signature events next season. Simpson, for one, can see from a player’s perspective how entry into the signature events should be more of a meritocracy.

“I totally can see it and I don’t disagree,” said Simpson, who is making his 15th start at the RBC Heritage this week. “I’m in a tough place because I’m on the Board and the signature events concept was crafted at the Board level. If Adam (Scott) gets four and I get four, sure, I know people are going to be saying things.

“I told another player this year who had an issue with board members getting spots. I said, ‘I know it looks political. I would argue it’s not political at all.’ The relationships I built, I built over a long period of time. I told this player that if we got something wrong,  if we missed something, we want to learn from it. I gladly accept people’s criticism and feedback. I hope I’m not in this position again. It’s a tough place to be knowing that some players have an issue with it.”

Reigning British Open champion Brian Harman sees both sides of a complicated issue.

“It’s a tricky one. I mean, in the pure meritocracy of it, no. But we’re asking sponsors to pony up extra money for these events, and so I don’t see how you can ask them to also not have sponsor exemptions,” Harman said. “So, I hear arguments for both sides and I understand both sides.”

Wilmot lamented having to call past RBC champs Matt Kuchar, Brandt Snedeker, C.T. Pan, Stewart Cink and Luke Donald and letting them know there was no room at the Inn for them this year. Mark Hubbard, No. 49 in the FedEx Cup standings, and Nicolai Hojgaard, a European Ryder Cupper who held the Masters lead on Saturday and ranks right behind him at No. 50 in the standings, also were left on the outside looking in.

Sponsor invites likely won’t be going away any time soon. Perhaps they should be reduced, or the Tour could add some language that the maximum number of invites a player receives can’t be reached until the final signature event. Simpson noted that the Tour should build flexibility into the system for Tiger Woods, who has liftted the Tour in immeasurable ways, to allow him into any field he wants to play given what he’s done historically and still continues to do every time he tees it up. No one will argue with the boost Woods would instantly bring to a signature event, but he’s probably the single figure who can elevate a field. And there’s no denying that there are intangibles some players bring that don’t show up in the stat sheets.

Wilmot picked Kisner, a former Tour policy board member, for all the little things he does throughout the year, including appearances at media day and at a tournament for sponsors as well as social media requests while Simpson went above and beyond the call of duty when he was reigning champion during the COVID year. Sometimes being a model citizen has its benefits.

“We remember these sorts of things,” Wilmot said.

Simpson is thankful for the opportunity to compete against the best in the world this week. He played himself into a late third-round tee time at the Valero Texas Open two weeks again and was more nervous than he’d been in a long time.

“I showed myself without realizing it how much I love the game still and competing,” he said. “It gave me a kick-start to want to be there more.”

And while Simpson understands how some players feel about him getting a third sponsor invite this week, he is unapologetic. Asked if he would consider passing up a fourth sponsor invite at the Wells Fargo Championship, his hometown event in May, to appease the faction of the Tour that thinks he’s received special treatment, Simpson didn’t waver. “No way,” he said. “I’m taking it. The rules are written as they are and I’m going to take every opportunity I can to play against the best players.”

(Editor’s note: A previous version of this story had a paragraph attributed to a social media post that has since been taken down.)

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Tour of the Alps Stage 4 highlights as Britain's Simon Carr surges to victory and Juan Pedro Lopez retains GC lead

Simon Carr (EF Education-EasyPost) seized his chance to break solo and clinched Stage 4 by nearly two minutes for the second Tour of the Alps stage win of his career. Juan Pedro Lopez (Lidl-Trek) clung on to the overall lead.