Sagan, Tinkoff continue to lead world UCI rankings
Despite skipping Liege-Bastogne-Liege in favour of mountain bike race, Tour of Flanders winner Peter Sagan maintained his spot at the top of the world UCI rankings, followed by his Tinkoff teammate Alberto Contador.
Following Michael Valgren’s second-place finish at the Amstel Gold Race, Tinkoff also remains atop the WorldTour team standings, 94 points ahead of Team Sky in second and 199 points ahead of BMC Racing in third.
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"The team’s on a good streak," Valgren said. "We’re first in the WorldTour and then first and second in the rider classification. I think we did something right this winter with the training, so we can be really proud of ourselves."
The team fought to be in the finale at Liege-Bastogne-Liege, but after missing the crucial move Tinkoff ended up seventh with Roman Kreuziger.
"On the new climb with cobbles, in the first half I couldn’t find my rhythm and couldn’t follow the other guys that attacked so I’m disappointed with this because nobody wanted to pull and really make the race to help catch the break,” Kreuziger said. “I'm very disappointed, as I saw in the last 500m that even into a head wind I was making up ground. I expected more than seventh, but that’s how the one-day races go – you need some luck."
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