The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced on Thursday that it has made major changes to the men's WorldTour road race ranking points system for the 2017 season.
Confusingly, the UCI WorldTour ranking used a completely different points scale to the similarly-named UCI World Ranking, which was introduced for the 2016 season.
UCI WorldTour points allocation 2017
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