The Movistar Team’s group displaced to the 2016 Tour de France will be getting back home on Monday after grueling, satisfactory efforts. And they will carry one more honorific award in their bags at the end of the ‘Grande Boucle’. The squad managed by Eusebio Unzué is back on top of the UCI WorldTour, for the first time since they claimed their third title on a row at the end of the 2015 season.
The telephone squad now amounts 1,102 points, claimed by Nairo Quintana - 407pt, 2nd in the individual WorldTour ranking behind leader Peter Sagan (TNK) , Alejandro Valverde - 307, ranked 7th following his sixth-placed finish in the TDF - Ion Izagirre - 10th, 240pt after his stunning Morzine win last Saturday - Rubén Fernández (80) and Andrey Amador (68). Former leaders Tinkoff are now down to second, with 1,046 points, not far away from Team Sky, who move up to third with 1,019 points.
Looking at the individual UCI World Ranking, the new reference for all UCI races since the 2016 season - the WorldTour ranking only includes the sport’s top tier - Valverde (2,275) and Quintana (2,256) currently sit third and fourth of the standings, led by Sagan with almost eight hundred points of advantage - 3,233, to Chris Froome’s (SKY) 2,494 -. Ion Izagirre is in eighth spot with 1,626 points.
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