Like every Tuesday, the UCI has updated its various world rankings. On an individual level, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) is still much above the competition after its triumph over the Dauphiné criterium two weeks ago, an event that also allowed Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | lease a bike) to reintegrate the world top 10 in 7th position. If this week, the Switzerland Tour did not upset the top of the hierarchy, JOAO ALMEIDA (Uae Team Emirates XRG) comforting his 6th place alone, he however brought to light a new French number 1, namely Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B & B Hotels)! Dolphin of the Portuguese, the Norman leaps in 27 places and climbs in 31st position with 1892 pts. He is ahead of Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ, 35th), also author of a beautiful weekly week, and Paul Magnier (Sudal Quick-Step, 41st), well reassembled following its 3 successes immediately in June.
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And the other French are not outdone: Emilien Jeannière (Totalnergies) integrates the top 50 after its podium on the Copenhagen Sprint (48e, + 21 places), Tandem Clement Champoussin (XDS Astana, 54th, + 9) and above all Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor, 57th, + 23) take advantage of their good Switzerland Tour (respectively 10th and 5th) to replace themselves. Beautiful tricolor density with 11 runners between the 30th and the 70th world squares, even if the top 30 is still virgin of Bleu-Blanc-Rouge.
But the main challenges of this season remains the classification slipping over the years 2023-2024-2025, which will allocate the WorldTour licenses for the next three seasons. While she had comfortably taken place in 17th position and inevitably seemed to be launched towards the maintenance after a fantastic rise, the formation Ds Astana experienced less well this week (only 177 pts marked) while its rivals all achieved much better performance. Cofidis (with Alexis Renard 2nd from the Copenhagen Sprint) and the Team Picnic PostNL (With Oscar Onley in Switzerland) are getting closer and remain within shooting in the event of a Kazakhe mixture ( – 430 pts for the French team, – 80 pts for the Dutch). Nothing is played in this three struggle, only one of which will come out of loser at the end of the year.
Let us note the extraordinary week of the team Arkéa-B&B Hotelsthe men ofEmmanuel Hubertthanks obviously to Kévin Vauquelin but also Cristian Rodriguez et Arnaud Demaresigning the 2nd best total this week with 925 pts garnered, only beaten by a team UAE Intouchable (1175 pts). A beautiful baroud of honor, even if it will take much more so that the Breton training can hope for a miracle rise, with another 3000 points to resume in the red zone …
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Men's individual classification (24.06):
UCI classification by men's teams (24.06)
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2023-2025 team classification (24.06)
