State of the 2024 USA Cycling Union: WorldTour Wins & Rider Numbers Stagnate While Individual Quality Increases

Checking in on the state of American cycling at the sport's highest level prior to the 2024 road racing season

When I sat down for an in-depth examination of the state of Americans in the WorldTour the last few off-seasons, I found that while the raw number of US riders was at a 15-year low, the performance and quality of each individual rider was only not dropping at a corresponding rate, but, was, in fact, significantly increasing on a per rider basis. Since I…