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"A million dollar prize awaits the winner of the new season-ending Race of Champions to be held in Abu Dhabi in November" - Eurosport.
Basically, it's a race between the winners of the 3 Grand Tours. Each winning team team gets to field 8-10 riders, there will an a representative team from the region, plus 4 wildcard teams selected closer to the event. The race is 3 stages including a flat stage, climb and TT.
What are everyone's thoughts on this? The million dollar prize should draw some serious attention from Pro Tour Teams - compares pretty well to the 450,000 euro prize for the Tour! There's not much on in November, the Worlds are in September and October has things like the Lombardia, Paris Tours & Zuri-Metzgete.
It's obviously not part of the ProTour, but I doubt they'll have trouble with attendance given the massive carot for the winner.
"A million dollar prize awaits the winner of the new season-ending Race of Champions to be held in Abu Dhabi in November" - Eurosport.
Basically, it's a race between the winners of the 3 Grand Tours. Each winning team team gets to field 8-10 riders, there will an a representative team from the region, plus 4 wildcard teams selected closer to the event. The race is 3 stages including a flat stage, climb and TT.
What are everyone's thoughts on this? The million dollar prize should draw some serious attention from Pro Tour Teams - compares pretty well to the 450,000 euro prize for the Tour! There's not much on in November, the Worlds are in September and October has things like the Lombardia, Paris Tours & Zuri-Metzgete.
It's obviously not part of the ProTour, but I doubt they'll have trouble with attendance given the massive carot for the winner.