Explainers · July 21
The Drop: How UCI World Tour Relegation Works
· Racing 101 At the end of 2022, for the first time, professional teams were pushed out of cycling's top tier on points alone. It was brutal, it was decided by numbers most fans had never looked at, and it changed the sport for good. That machinery is still running. Every WorldTour team now races under a threat that would be familiar to any football club: keep scoring, or go down. Understand it and a lot of otherwise baffling behaviour — the transfers, the race programmes, the sprint for eighth place in a race nobody watches — suddenly makes sense. At the…
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