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Simon Brooke
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in message <[email protected]>, MagillaGorilla
('[email protected]') wrote:
> Simon Brooke wrote:
>
>> in message <[email protected]>, MagillaGorilla
>> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>>
>>>RonSonic wrote:
>>>
>>>>It's one race every four years. How big an involvement is that for a
>>>>real professional sport with seasons and series on each continent.
>>>
>>>Jesus Christ I have to explain everything. The UCI, USAC and national
>>>federations consider the Olympics 50x bigger than any other race
>>>because
>>> of the television exposure and grant/sponsorship money they get from
>>>their respective governments/sponsors.
>>
>> I hate to tell you this, but pro cycling gets less grant/sponsorship
>> money from the Olympics than from three days of the Tour de France.
>> And there's eighty days of the Tour de France for every Olympics. The
>> Olympics could roll over and die and pro cycling's accountants
>> wouldn't even blink.
>>
>> The Olympics is, in cycling terms, a minor side-show. The Dauphine
>> Libere is more important.
>
> So then why did the UCI subject itself to WADA oversight? According to
> you, it's for no reason whatsoever.
Because the UCI wants to get doping under control.
> The fact is you are wrong and your financials are severely
> underestimated.
Produce your evidence, then.
> Once again, now pay attention. National federations get millions from
> the Olympics. The UCI depedns on this money indirectly.
Neither ASO who run the Tour, nor the teams who ride it, get a penny from
the Olympics - and /they/ are the ones who largely pay for the UCI. Put
it this way: tell the UCI that they can keep amateur cycling (and US
cycling, which is pretty much the same thing) and the Olympics but dump
the ProTour, or they can dump the Olympics and keep the ProTour, and see
which way they jump!
I don't believe it will happen, because I believe that the people at the
top of pro cycling want to get the sport cleaned up. But if you did
force the UCI to choose, it would be bye bye Olympics.
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[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Morning had broken, and I found when I looked that we had run out
of copper roove nails.
('[email protected]') wrote:
> Simon Brooke wrote:
>
>> in message <[email protected]>, MagillaGorilla
>> ('[email protected]') wrote:
>>
>>>RonSonic wrote:
>>>
>>>>It's one race every four years. How big an involvement is that for a
>>>>real professional sport with seasons and series on each continent.
>>>
>>>Jesus Christ I have to explain everything. The UCI, USAC and national
>>>federations consider the Olympics 50x bigger than any other race
>>>because
>>> of the television exposure and grant/sponsorship money they get from
>>>their respective governments/sponsors.
>>
>> I hate to tell you this, but pro cycling gets less grant/sponsorship
>> money from the Olympics than from three days of the Tour de France.
>> And there's eighty days of the Tour de France for every Olympics. The
>> Olympics could roll over and die and pro cycling's accountants
>> wouldn't even blink.
>>
>> The Olympics is, in cycling terms, a minor side-show. The Dauphine
>> Libere is more important.
>
> So then why did the UCI subject itself to WADA oversight? According to
> you, it's for no reason whatsoever.
Because the UCI wants to get doping under control.
> The fact is you are wrong and your financials are severely
> underestimated.
Produce your evidence, then.
> Once again, now pay attention. National federations get millions from
> the Olympics. The UCI depedns on this money indirectly.
Neither ASO who run the Tour, nor the teams who ride it, get a penny from
the Olympics - and /they/ are the ones who largely pay for the UCI. Put
it this way: tell the UCI that they can keep amateur cycling (and US
cycling, which is pretty much the same thing) and the Olympics but dump
the ProTour, or they can dump the Olympics and keep the ProTour, and see
which way they jump!
I don't believe it will happen, because I believe that the people at the
top of pro cycling want to get the sport cleaned up. But if you did
force the UCI to choose, it would be bye bye Olympics.
--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Morning had broken, and I found when I looked that we had run out
of copper roove nails.