After the Tour de France – where he amazingly won 2 well deserved mountain stages – Portuguese rider Rui costa dropped to 13th place in the UCI Ranking.
Rui Costa was 10th before the Tour after winning two years in a row the Tour de Suisse.
Amazing Portuguese Rui Costa Wins Tour de Suisse 2 Years in a Row!
We know now that he will be out of the Vuelta,
https://sportsworldintel.com/la-vuelta-2013-race-features-and-prize-money/
but his quest to finish inside the UCI Top 10 – as he did in 2012 – is not over.
The race calendar for Rui Costa’s remaining season (extracted from his website) is the following (events signed with * award UCI points accordingly to the scale of the UCI World Ranking set in 2009 available on):
http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=NDk5MDY&LangId=1
G.P. Plouay* | September 1 |
Brussels Cycling Classics | September 7 |
G.P. de Fourmies | September 8 |
G.P. Québec* | September 13 |
G.P. Montréal* | September 15 |
So, all the best Rui Costa, keep struggling and you will be again inside UCI Top 10 in 2013!