'It's absurd, the whole ranking system' - Vaughters slams UCI points system two years after EF's relegation survival

Vaughters' EF Education-EasyPost team at the Tour de France
Va💫ughters' EF Ed♑ucation-EasyPost team at the Tour de France (Image credit: Getty Images)

In an era of UCI promotion/relegation cycles and teams creating calendars around points scoring, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:EF Education-EasyPost CEO Jonathan Vaughters wants tཧo keep his team from falling into the "anticlimactic and boring" way of racing he believe𝔉s it breeds.

Vaughters' EF Education programme have builtꦺ up a reputation of racing aggressively, chasing stage wins and often🥂 targeting jerseys outside of the leaders at big races. In going all out for such, they have sometimes missed on potential top 10 finishes on GC or a chance to score more UCI points. 

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