The UCI points system is flawed when you get 125 points for winning Marcel Kint and only 100 points for winning a Giro stage - You should get three times as many points for winning a GT stage.
I mean I think everyone knows this by now. I agree, I don't like it. LTS didn't benefit from the system either the past 2 years while their rivals back then did heavily (Arkea, Cofidis & Intermarché). But it's time for fans, riders and teams to just accept it for now. LTS obviously realized they need to play the system like those other (mainly french) teams have been doing for a long time and it's paying off. I still think it's probably to late but we'll see at the end of the season.
Another good week for Lotto about 250 points in Wallonie & Kint race ...
A 3rd place and a win is definitely a good week. 17 wins already and we aren't even June yet. That's really good for them. Even tho most of the wins are in smaller races, they're still wins. The squad for the one day races seems to be in really good spirit which will result in more good performances.
UCI points wise this week was somewhat breakeven with EF and BEX (Sobrero saved them after failing in Estonia). I expected LTS to have a worse weak compared to them so they should be really happy with how this turned out. Like I said before, June is going to be incredibly important. They need to hope that BEX and especially EF don't score big and LTS themselves need to score big in the Belgian one day races starting with Heistse Pijl, Brussels and Limburg next weekend. It's not going to be as easy as the last couple of smaller races anymore tho as they will have better teams and riders to deal with from now on. QS, AG2R, FDJ, Ineos, Jumbo, Bora, UAE, etc. will send teams to some of the Belgian one day races now that the giro is finished.