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McQuaid tells the ASO to follow the rules or get out the UCI

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09-02.-2008, 08:18 AM

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cyclingheroes

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Re: McQuaid tells the ASO to follow the rules or get out the UCI

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Originally Posted by Bro Deal

I don't see how there can be an agreement. The UCI has created the facts to make an agreement impossible. They had the opportunity to get rid of three PT teams for this season. This would have put them close to the sixteen that the GTs wanted. Instead they okayed Astana again, leaving us with eighteen teams.

With McQuaid talking about how ASO needs to accept the PT rules or leave the UCI then situation looks to get much worse.

I'm affraid your right....

Next round: It looks like ASO wants to buy the Vuelta a Espana
http://www.velonews.com/article/71856

Three months ago ASO already bought the Tour of Germany and the Hamburg Cyclassics...

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09-02.-2008, 08:22 AM	#47
TheDarkLord Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,833	Re: McQuaid tells the ASO to follow the rules or get out the UCI What are the consequences if ASO leaves UCI (other than the team invitation process of course)?

09-02.-2008, 08:24 AM

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Re: McQuaid tells the ASO to follow the rules or get out the UCI

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Do sponsors really take an active role in these things? I thought they sit one level higher, and interact primarily to the team managers who interact with the other cycling authorities and the riders.

That is my point. The sponsors are a major stakeholder. They don't have to be running things... but having a voice at the meeting would be an improvement. A lot of the latest shenannigans have screwed sponsors. Take the sponsors out of pro cycling and you would have to have ASO, UCI and RCS etc. paying all the riders their livelihoods and how they would have teams is beyond my imagination.

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