**Tailwind Sports decision to drop cycling was a move that had to be made with the climate presented by the ASO and the UCI. Cycling has to be seen as a huge risk concerning the behavior of the organizations going on in the present power struggle.
The following article in Velonews gets to the point exactly what is going on in the sport of professional cycling. The organizations are using doping as a excuse to damage each other.Riders careers are being destroyed along with publics perception of this 3 ring circus.
http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/13466.0.html
Several things jumped out at me after reading the article.
Take the sport to Russia and China?????
If the sport loses it's historical charm that the current European races offer, then all you have left is bike racing. And if all you have is bike racing, then the fans might as well go to the local crits in their hometowns. Bike racing is bike racing. I have been to 2 World Championships and to be honest, they were boring compared to the local crits around here.
We need the historical climbs that the TDF offers, the cobbles of the spring classics. and the food in Italy. We need to compare the old riders to the new heros.
The sport needs diversity of overseas riders. But make them come to the races, not the other way around.
The following article in Velonews gets to the point exactly what is going on in the sport of professional cycling. The organizations are using doping as a excuse to damage each other.Riders careers are being destroyed along with publics perception of this 3 ring circus.
http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/13466.0.html
Several things jumped out at me after reading the article.
Take the sport to Russia and China?????
If the sport loses it's historical charm that the current European races offer, then all you have left is bike racing. And if all you have is bike racing, then the fans might as well go to the local crits in their hometowns. Bike racing is bike racing. I have been to 2 World Championships and to be honest, they were boring compared to the local crits around here.
We need the historical climbs that the TDF offers, the cobbles of the spring classics. and the food in Italy. We need to compare the old riders to the new heros.
The sport needs diversity of overseas riders. But make them come to the races, not the other way around.
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Tailwind Sports Corporation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, was founded by Thom Weisel, the founder and chairman of Thomas Weisel Partners and the former founder and chairman of Montgomery Securities from 1971 until 1998. Tailwind has owned and managed a men’s professional road cycling team since its inception in 1989.
Most recently known as the United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team® (1996–2004), Tailwind’s team is the only American team ever to have won the sport’s premier event, the Tour de France, as well as the prestigious Tour of Spain.