Only Three Roads teams???

[Fausto Coppied]

It looks like there are only three Canadian UCI Road teams. Is the press release from the Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) just poorly written or will there be women's teams or not? It doesn't say.

Can we now agree what a failure Lorraine Lafrenière has been as Director General of the CCA?


It's mid-January, we have no news of anything happening at the CCA since about November. there has been no information from the Annual General Meeting held three months ago posted on the CCA web site. Wasn't Lorraine Lafrenière supposed to be in communications? We have no Annual Report from her or CCA President Pierre Blanchard. No financials have been posted. There are no news events added. There is no word on Canada Cup-type series. There is no new sponsorship of any kind at the CCA. Wasn’t Lorraine Lafrenière in Marketing?

How long must we endure this dismal failure and complete botching of the sport of cycling in Canada?


We are now in an Olympic year and the CCA is complete disarray.

It is a very sad situation, especially since it was so predictable and avoidable.

How did we put people in charge of the sport who know nothing about it?



from Canadian Cyclist:


January 17/08 10:15am EST - CCA Announces 2008 UCI Road Teams

Posted by Editoress on 1/17/08.​

2008 UCI Road Teams - Canada
Courtesy CCA

Team R.A.C.E. Pro
www.teamracepro.com

Team Owner
Cycle Sport Management Inc
Josée Larocque, Steve Bauer

Support Staff
Steve Bauer (Directeur Sportif)
Josée Larocque (Manager)
Bernard Kocis (Mechanic)

Athletes
Mark Batty (Can) U23
Andre Hunt (Can) U23
Dustin MacBurnie (Can) Elite
Kevin "Buck" Miller (Can) Elite
Keir Plaice (Can) U23
Joel Dion-Poitras (Can) U23
Mark Pozniak (Can) Elite
Eric Robertson (Can) U23
Ryan Roth (Can) Elite
Adam Thuss (Can) U23
Dan Timmerman (USA) Elite
Mark Walters (Can) Elite


Calyon
www.calyoncanadacycling.com

Team Owner
équipe Cycliste ADLPV

Support Staff
Jonathan Desjardins (Directeur Sportif)
Bernard Vives (Manager)
Marc-Wayne Addison (Directeur Sportif)

Athletes
Maxime Vives (Can) Elite
Charly Vives (Can) Elite
Matt Guse (Can) Elite
William Goodfellow (Can) Elite
David Bergeron (Can) Elite
Mathieu Roy (Can) Elite
Micheal Norton (USA) Elite
Mathew Bell (Can) Elite


Symmetrics Cycling
www.symmetricscycling.com

Team Owner
Rusty Chain Projects
Kevin Cunningham

Support Staff
Matthew Barth (Team Manager)
Kevin Field (Team Manager)
Geoff Brown (Mechanic)
Sophie St Jaques (Soigneur)
Myriam Desroirs (Soigneur)
Bill McPherson (Mechanic)

Athletes
Svein Tuft (Can) Elite
Andrew Pinfold (Can) Elite
Eric Wholberg (Can) Elite
Jacob Erker (Can) Elite
Will Routley (Can) Elite
Jeff Sherstobitoff (Can) Elite
Brandon Chrichton (Can) Elite
Andrew Randell (Can) Elite
Cameron Evans (Can) Elite
Christian Meier (Can) Elite
Geoff Kabush (Can) Elite
Francois Parisien (Can) Elite
Zach Bell (Can) Elite
Ryan Anderson (Can) U23

 

[Jasmineminor]

Maybe this has something to do with why no one bothers to register a trade team in Canada

February 17/08 10am EST - Why is Team Symmetrics Not at Tour of California?

Posted by Editoress on 2/17/08.
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During the Amgen Tour of California (AToC) press conference, one of the questions asked of Race Director Jim Birrell was about the absence of Symmetrics, despite the fact that they are the UCI Americas Tour champions and won the U.S. Open. Birrell commented that it was impossible to accommodate all the teams that wanted to participate, and that beyond the elite ProTour teams their goal was to support smaller U.S. squads. Thus, according to the organizers, Symmetrics missed out on an entry because of national bias.

or is this Bill Kinash's fault too?

 

[Fausto Coppied]

If Canada still had worthwhile events of its own Symmetrics would not need to race out of Canada all the time.


Furthermore, do you think Canadian sponsors want to sponsor a team that it out of the country all the time?

The lack of Canadian events, especially road events, is Bill Kinash's fault. He and the CCA walked away from a $15,000,000 investment in the sport without one new sponsor. How stupid can that guy be?

 

[Jasmineminor]

If Canada still had worthwhile events of its own Symmetrics would not need to race out of Canada all the time.


Furthermore, do you think Canadian sponsors want to sponsor a team that it out of the country all the time?

The lack of Canadian events, especially road events, is Bill Kinash's fault. He and the CCA walked away from a $15,000,000 investment in the sport without one new sponsor. How stupid can that guy be?

In the last 40+ years of road cycling in Canada, we have had what 5 years? where there was a national race series?

Seems to me that Stieda, Hayman, Strong, Bauer, Lovell, Burka, Walton all made their reps racing in the US. and since the demise of the Can Tire series we have seen some great riders that had no involvement in the series Rollin, Hesjedal, Barry, Walton, Tuft, Bell,.....

BTW the 'one of the most respected BMX rider of all time is Jay Miron and he is a canuck too.

The Can tire series ran for 5 years., but no other sponsor thought it was "worth" continuing. That is what is referred to in business as a non-marketable commodity.

Was Bill K responsible for the contract not being renewed after 1992? Who WAS the TD in charge at the CCA then. M. Farrar perhaps? maybe HE dropped the ball.

What 15 mil 'investment' are you talking about? Still harping on about those tents? maybe the CCA should have canceled the Worlds and taken the $$ anyway and put on a national series.

If a World Championships on Canadian soil cannot attract a similar investment/deal/interest in cycling in Canada as the Can Tire deal.. maybe that should tell you something. And no NOT THAT BILL KINASH is the BOOGIE MAN. You have flogged that horse to death. Come on you can come up with something better than that.


The original Can Tire series was unsolicited by the CCA. Someone as smart as you should be able to put together a proposal to revive something similar. After all.. are you not repeatedly saying how you are the ONLY person who has what it takes to make cycling a bit commodity in Can?

The BC superweek is making a go of it without CCA interference or participation.

Oh and for someone with your 'supposed' credentials. Why is it you are not still in cycling and/or running some big US team?. Lots of opportunities there in the last 10 years!! I mean you ARE currently working in the US so you CAN work there. Right?

 

[Fausto Coppied]

Prior to the Canadian Tire sponsor there was a Canada Road Cup. After the Canadian Tire Ssponsohorship there was a natioal series fo awhile. there was even a national road series two or thre years ago for one season.

There had always been national and international road races throughout Caanda prior to and after the Caandian tire Series. They dried up after the 2003 World Road Champoionshoips because of Bill Kinash's mismanagement of the CCA.

Now men's road racign is almost non-existent poutiosde of Quebec.

The $15,000,000 I'm referring was for the entire 2003 Road World Championshoips. The World's organization burned far more than the tents sposnorship. They burned the Saturn deal for 70 cars, they burned the Triumph motorcycle deal. Fifteen million dollars was spent on those Worlds events and the CCA walked away without one sponsor, not one. I guess that should not be a surprise as then CCA President Bill Kinash left the CCA marketing position vacant six months prior to the Worlds and 15 months after it. When he finaly filed it it wa with somebody (Kim Sebrnago) with no cyclign expericne. She failed to bring in one new sponsor in almost two years.

How stupid was that !!!!