Which WT team will win last 2024

RichN95. · February 1

It's February and 11 World Tour teams have already won, so we who we think will be this year's champion.

Wins are any UCI race ranked .1 or above. No national champs, no secondary classification jerseys.

Some three money teams, perennial challengers Astana and the French are still left

Arkea-BB Hotels

Astana

Cofidis

Decathlon-Ag2R

Ineos Grenadiers

Lidl-Trek

Visma-Lease a Bike

The palmares:

2013 Euskaltel
2014 Astana
2015 LottoNL-Jumbo
2016 Giant
2017 Astana
2018 Sunweb
2019 Sunweb
2020 CCC
2021 Intermarche
2022 DSM
2023 Alpacin

mididoctors · February 1

Guess we need a look at the calendar coming up ....hold on

mididoctors · February 1

French teams have a chance in drome and ardeche ..... Astana

Dorset_Boy · February 1

Arkea

m.r.m. · February 2

Arkea

No_Ta_Doctor · February 2

I'm going for Arkea as well

JimD666 · February 2

Decathlon-Ag2R for my pick

andyp · February 2

Cofidis, because I think Demare will snick a win soon, somewhere.

No_Ta_Doctor · February 2

Lidl-Trek took objection to this thread and would like their name removed.

wakemalcolm · February 2

Since Astana and Ineos have no domestic calendar to lean into, I'm guessing it's going to be one of them.

Ineos tend to go large or go home so I think it could be them.

RichN95. · February 2

https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21049135#Comment_21049135

Yes, It seems there was a win one get one free offer on today.

For the record, I'm going for Cofidis

wakemalcolm · February 4

Bizarrely, Arkea time trial themselves out of contention.

RichN95. · February 7

Astana win in Colombia meaning its France v Money just like 1789.

Cofidis and Decathlon-AG2R start the Tour de Provence tomorrow, Ineos and Visma are doing some races in Spain at the weekend.

Pross · February 8

What's the earliest they have all managed a win? We're down to 4 left and the season hasn't even started yet!

wakemalcolm · February 9

I take it if Bernal wins in Columbia this week that's 'no bueno' as far as this contest is concerned. How does it sit wrt UCI points?

JimD666 · February 9

I'd guess they still get the UCI points based on the following from https://lanternerouge.com/2022/12/24/the-new-world-tour-points-and-relegation-system-explained/

"Continental Championships outside Europe still award 250 points to the winner of the road race (more than a stage of the Tour) and National Championships (some with a very low sporting level) still award 100 points to the winner of the road race."

If points are still being awarded while racing Nationals/ etc then I'd guess Bernal would still earn UCI points for INEOS

andyp · February 9

https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/comment/21049908#Comment_21049908

I think you've misunderstood. Bernal is riding the Tour of Colombia for the Colombian National Team and the question was, if I understood it correctly, do Ineos get the UCI points he earns, if any, from this race?

I've no idea what happens, but am sure if you dig around the UCI points scoring rules, it'll be covered somewhere.