UCI Rankings Team Update | Astana has taken back 5000 points and is almost virtually back in the World Tour

The Tour de Romandie, Tour of Turkey and Eschborn-Frankfurt have provided teams with opportunities to score big this past week and at the very top was... XDS Astana Team. The Kazakh team have virtually completed their comeback, and are a mere few points away from entering the Top18 teams once again in the ranking.

You can check the previous update. That's right, with a strong Romandie from Lorenzo Fortunato and a one-two in the GC of the Tour of Turkey by Wout Poels and Harold Martin López, have scored over 1100 points in this update, even more than UAE Team Emirates - XRG who had João Almeida and Jay Vine finishing first and third in Romandie. It is an impressive comeback from the Kazakh team, who will inevitably go into 18th place in the coming weeks.

Team PicnicPostNL did defend itself well this week scoring over 300, but now have over an over 500-point deficit over Cofidis but a mere 37 points over Astana. The two have 1500 points over Uno-X Mobility who also had a good week but simply could not match the pace of Astana.