On Mar 23, 5:29 pm, MagillaGorilla <
[email protected]> wrote:
> HC wrote:
> >http://www.frankvdbroucke.be/petitie_nl.php (Dutch)
>
> I'm not going to sign it. Frank should have joined a union if he wanted
> to change the rules.
>
> Why should the public care if the cyclists themselves don't?
Dumbass,
What rules? Frank the Tank got suspended in 2002. That
was six years ago. Even the ban from Pro Tour teams is
only supposed to last four years, and he isn't even on a
Pro Tour team. You have a point that if the riders had a
union, the union could file a grievance and try to force
the UCI to let VDB ride, and maybe by the time the case
was heard a year from now they would have to finally
let him ride, if that is he could get a day off from his new
job serving escargot at Allan Peiper's stand. But this is
a smokescreen.
I don't believe VDB is really gonna do anything in a race
other than cause distractions, but your talking about "rules"
here seems even more hopelessly optimistic than the
VDB fanclub's estimation of his racing chances.
As far as I can tell, the UCI has never forgiven the Flemish
fed for not putting VDB on double super secret probation,
and this is their way of pissing in the Flemish fed's beer.
VDB himself at this point is just collateral damage.
Ben