On Sunday O Gran Camiño organisers handed a third flower bouquet as stage winner and a final yellow jersey as GC winner to Jonas Vingegaard, but they could only dish out 125 UCI points to the Visma-Lease a Bike rider for the overall win and 42 more for three stage wins. In the season-long hunt for World rankings, race director Ezequiel Mosquera knows his race will only grow if it is permitted to upgrade to the next level where points, not cash, are king.
In just a third year as a UCI 2.1-rated stage race, Mosquera admitted he was frustrated and wanted the event to move to the ProSeries. That ‘want’ is probably out of reach, however, because of UCI rules and not because of effort.
