Cycling: With the victory of Philippe Gilbert at the Tour of Beijing (we reported) ended this year's UCI WorldTour. So it's also time to take stock and it shows that Alejandro Valverde, the Movistar Team and Canyon have every reason to be happy.
The Spaniard Alejandro Valverde is now at the top of the UCI WorldTour individual rankings at the end of the season. The captain of the Movistar team triumphed on his Canyon Ultimate CF SLX at the Flèche Walonne and the Clásica San Sebástian, among others.
For the Spaniard it is the third success on a UCI Tour after 2006 and 2008 and his team Movistar was able to celebrate the second win in a row in the team classification. This winning streak is only topped by team sponsor Canyon: For the people from Koblenz, it was the fourth consecutive triumph at the UCI WorldTour.