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[email protected] (Sonarrat) wrote in
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>> "Robert Chung" <
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>> berlin.de>...
>>> Joseph Hurley wrote:
>>>> I don't swear to this, but I also believe that I read on the UCI website sometime back that the
>>>> rating of a race is based in part on the percentage of teams that are division 1. If they let
>>>> in too many teams that are division 2 (and that rule does not care what the reason for the
>>>> team's status in division 2 is) then that will result in the Tour de France losing its official
>>>> ranking as an HC race.
>>>
>>> It's good that you wouldn't swear to that. The major tours (TdF, Giro, and Vuelta) aren't
>>> classified as 2.HC races. You can find the criteria that the major tours must use in accepting
>>> team in the UCI rules.
>>
>> Yes - they have their own special category, GT. I don't think any of the three will be losing it
>> any time soon.
>>
>> At least they aren't accepting FRENCH Div. II teams. That would be a travesty, even moreso than
>> RAGT Semences... I mean, look at their roster, and delete Rutkiewicz. Then imagine a French Div.
>> II team.
>>
>>
http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/2004/teams2004/RAG.shtml
>>
>> -Sonarrat.
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> Easy according to Cycling4all there are no D2 French teams So that makes it easy not to pick any.
>
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> D1 AG2R Prévoyance .Brioches La Boulangère .Credit Agricole .Cofidis .FDJeux.com .RAGT Semences-
> MG Rover .
>
> D3 Auber 93 .Credit Agricole - "Espoirs" .Oktos-MBK
Oh.
Well, that brings a different perspective to things.
-Sonarrat.