TeamSkyFans said:
And GB are miles behind, although they were last year until the cav and wiggins show boosted them just a little bit over july. Cant see that happening again this year though. Maybe as well, i think sometimes you can take too many riders to the worlds, things get complicated
GB is fourteenth with 127 points, and they have seven on the individual rankings at the moment (Hammond, Wiggins, Cav, Millar, Thomas, Cummings and Blyth).
Of the top ten Australia have 9, Belgium 13, Spain 19, Italy 33 (!), USA 6, Kazakhstan 2, Slovenia 3, Russia 9, France 27 (!), Germany 14 and Switzerland 7.
All in all, I think this system is an improvement. It 'punishes' Kazakhstan for only having two, albeit two very good ones. No more stupid scenarios of Luxembourg getting to send 9 guys while they only have 4 professional cyclists.
Other nations:
12 12 NETHERLANDS NED 149
13 13 NORWAY NOR 134
14 14 GREAT BRITAIN GBR 127
15 15 CZECH REPUBLIC CZE 120
16 16 NEW ZEALAND NZL 113
17 17 ESTONIA EST 111
18 18 CANADA CAN 107
19 19 LUXEMBOURG LUX 94
20 20 AUSTRIA AUT 83
21 21 IRELAND IRL 61
22 22 PORTUGAL POR 48
23 24 SLOVAKIA SVK 42
24 23 CROATIA CRO 38
25 25 DENMARK DEN 28
26 29 ARGENTINA ARG 19
27 26 SWEDEN SWE 16
28 27 COLOMBIA COL 15
29 28 SOUTH AFRICA RSA 13
30 - POLAND POL 6
31 30 JAPAN JPN 4
32 31 BELARUS BLR 1