Yeah. It's sad that these domestiques are paid so little, but nothing good out of the sport ever comes from over paying people, that's for sure.
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kumazan wrote:
I thought Alonso had a better English tbh.
Yeah, I know mine's not good either.
issoisso wrote:
And he loves chicken
*snip*
I hadn't seen those. Not surprising, it'd never make the Spanish TV since our F1 commentator is in love with Alonso. He's to Alonso what Smithers is to Burns. Or Liggett to Amstrong.
Vicente Reynes (in this video wrongly portraited as Bart De Clercq) speaks good English, but for some reason his tweets are in Spanglish as well.
Oh, and while I was boring myself to death at some lame info sessions at my first day of university, my mom meats Marcel Kittel (with "miss Eneco" ) in my hometown #fuckmylive
Edited by fosforgasXIII on 23-09-2013 22:37
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
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547984 wrote:
Yeah. It's sad that these domestiques are paid so little, but nothing good out of the sport ever comes from over paying people, that's for sure.
They are not under paid at all in my opinion, if they can get by that should be enough, after all they are just riding a bike. I look at these 2 guys and just think they realised that there is more to life than sport.
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Among the reforms proposed were "a First and Second Division, with fewer riders in each team and fewer racing days each year for the riders," said the UCI. "Further the current annual sporting assessment would be replaced by an automatic promotion/relegation mechanism and the season would be ideally scheduled to take place during a more compact period of the year (between February and October).
Among the reforms proposed were "a First and Second Division, with fewer riders in each team and fewer racing days each year for the riders," said the UCI. "Further the current annual sporting assessment would be replaced by an automatic promotion/relegation mechanism and the season would be ideally scheduled to take place during a more compact period of the year (between February and October).
That cannot have come out of the UCI.... it makes sense!
Among the reforms proposed were "a First and Second Division, with fewer riders in each team and fewer racing days each year for the riders," said the UCI. "Further the current annual sporting assessment would be replaced by an automatic promotion/relegation mechanism and the season would be ideally scheduled to take place during a more compact period of the year (between February and October).
That cannot have come out of the UCI.... it makes sense!
Among the reforms proposed were "a First and Second Division, with fewer riders in each team and fewer racing days each year for the riders," said the UCI. "Further the current annual sporting assessment would be replaced by an automatic promotion/relegation mechanism and the season would be ideally scheduled to take place during a more compact period of the year (between February and October).
Didn't even remember that. Well, that makes sense. We're UCI on drugs or on alcohol when they decided that?
They want to have fewer racing days each year for the riders and the teams smaller. Well, I think all the riders will still ride as much as they now do. (Or do I understand it wrong?)
I don't see it working. Most of the teams money is at a couple of teams (BMC, Astana, Katusha, Sky and to a lesser extent OPQS, Movistar (?) and Orica (?))
So these teams have less riders which means more teams need to come for those extra riders but who is going to sponsor these teams/pay these riders? The amount of folding teams <-> the new teams is really bad this year.
I thought that with globalization UCI was trying to have races from early January to late December, running races in the Souther hemisphere during European's winter.
Apparently they're coming back to something more traditional.
I'm not sure whether it'll be good, bad, or won't make a difference...
Promotion/relegation makes sense from a sportive viewpoint, but I see it as a renouncement to ethics, as poorer results combined with better ethics could grant a WT spot.
Also, I'm curious to see how Div. 1 and Div. 2 will work regarding invitations, who'll get to ride what races, and what it'll imply for Pro Conti teams.
Now, there are like a dozen of powerhouses in WT (or PT, I never know), half a dozen of lesser teams, while it's the other way round in Pro Conti. Half a dozen of strong teams, and a dozen or two of lesser ones. Room enough to make it three divisions.
Shorter season = Remove Beijing and Hangzhou (for the third time )
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mb2612 wrote:
So basically kill any high level cycling outside Europe.
Yes, kill all of it, that's exactly what's being said
mb2612 wrote:
Yay, lets undo the only good thing McQuaid has done.
Good?
Taking the money teams gave to further the sport and pay for the bio passport and using it instead, without permission of anyone, to fund a race that has few crowds, barely any fan interest, that neither the teams nor most fans want to see, that serves only to fill the pockets of the corrupt former UCI president who made the race happen to make himself richer.....is good???????
And McQuaid had nothing to do with it. Verbruggen did it. Because he pockets a large share of the revenue. McQuaid has no say or opinion, what comes out of his mouth is only what Verbruggen wants and absolutely nothing else.
Verbruggen couldn't continue to be Emperor, so he installed a puppet ruler. To think Pat is anything else is to be seriously misinformed.
Edited by issoisso on 24-09-2013 22:51
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
The vast majority of races outside Europe bookend the season, hence shorting the season removes them from the system.
Globablisation of cylcing is a good thing, and the UCI, whether it's McQuiad of Verbruggen, over the past few years have encouraged it.
How exactly do you want CHina to get a ProTour race. They haven't just paid for top cyclists to come across for tourism. They have a wide variety of UCI races at a variety of levels, but because it's a long flight away, we should just pretend that they don't exist?
Also, I don't believe that Pat is merely a puppet. If he was no more than a puppet, then we would have no need for the massive fight over the past 6 months to get him nominated. Verbruggen could just nominate someone new from a different, more obliging company.
Absolving McQuaid of blame completely, not only completely contradicts the last 6 months on drama, but also means that all the crap that has happened under his governance isn't his fault.
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182]Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
Read Vaughters'article about McQuaid, Verbruggen, and also Tour of Beijing, then argue with others: https://www.cyclin...n-cookson/
Yes, we really need a race generating 700k loss every year, covered partially by teams' funds.
I hadn't seen those. Not surprising, it'd never make the Spanish TV since our F1 commentator is in love with Alonso. He's to Alonso what Smithers is to Burns. Or Liggett to Amstrong. 
