This year the fight for UCI points is more important than before, only the top eighteen teams will get WorldTour licenses. Lotto Soudal is on the wrong side of that divide and the overall win in the Baloise Belgium Tour could have made a difference. We look at the UCI WorldTour 'league' and where the teams are at the moment.

Today's Readers' Rig is a large Ridley Helium SL decked out in retro Belgian Lotto team colors. This addition to reader Steve's stable, is well and truly loved.

Two more exciting Vuelta stages to catch up with. Lotto Soudal defends 2021 young team - TOP STORY. No Covid-19 positives in la Vuelta. Tour de France 2021 presentation, Riwal Securitas hopeful. Evenepoel apologises, Bernal talks back injury, San Remo ignores Savona. Plus 'The Decisive Week – Giro d’Italia 2020' by Sunweb.

Oct 26, 2020 - Tao Geoghegan Hart gave INEOS another Grand Tour. All the results and videos from Italy and the Vuelta. Brailsford happy-TOP STORY. Contracts for López, Wellens, Wallays, O’Connor, Valgren and Swirbul. Alpecin not for Aru. Gazprom and Rally. Pinto suspended. Race news from Maryland, Berlin 6 Days and the Tour of Britain.

Tim Wellens won stage 5 to Sabiñanigo on Saturday. The Lotto Soudal rider was the strongest in a leading group of three at the end of 184.4 kilometres. Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) finished second, ahead of Thymen Arensman (Sunweb). Primoz Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) was fourth and held the overall lead.

Oct 22, 2020 - All the latest news from the Giro and the Vuelta, plus Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne all with video. Covid-19 changes the Giro route - TOP STORY. Alaphilippe talks season and crash. Rider covid cases, Jumbo-Visma women's team, Gatto to retire, contract news from Majka and Lotto Soudal. WorldTour teams swap bikes. EUROTRASH coffee time!

Oct 12, 2020 - A full weekend with the Giro, Gent-Wevelgem and Paris-Tours, results and videos. No 2020 Roubaix-TOP STORY. Van Aert and Van der Poel talk Roubaix. Wellens to Flanders and Vuelta, Bernal finishes season, two more years for Soupe, Lefevere on Almeida, Riis unsure, Lotto Soudal ladies and Bakelants ends his season.

Oct 05, 2020 - All the race news from the Giro, Liège and the BinckBank Tour. Evenepoel takes his first ride - TOP STORY. Race news: Asgreen wins National TT and Scheldeprijs moves start. Injury reports on Van Avermaet, Gilbert, Jakobsen and Dygert. Team news. Alaphilippe talks about winning the World championships.

Sept 24, 2020 - As the dust settles on the Tour there has been a doping controversy - TOP STORY. Results from the Belgian champs and Paris-Camembert. Tour and Vuelta bosses talk, Evenepoel motivated, Vuelta riders, no Worlds for Sagan and Quintana, TT for Dumoulin, Viviani to the Giro. Amstel? Contracts. Albasini Swiss coach, Baloise, Zoetemelk. Bennett and UAE videos.