Saw this on CNN (maybe there is something similar in velonews or other cycling news websites)
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/02/26/cycling.paris.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest
Paris-Nice will go-ahead say organizers
The Paris-Nice race will go ahead next month under its own rules despite opposition from the International Cycling Union, which wants teams to boycott the event.
UCI president Pat McQuaid sent a letter to all professional teams Monday explaining why it will not oversee the 75-year-old race organized by French group Amaury Sports Organization, which also owns the Tour de France.
`Despite the hostile positions taken by the UCI president, Paris-Nice will take place as planned from the ninth to the 16th of March,' ASO said Tuesday in a statement. `And will be organized according to the technical rules of the French Cycling Federation, in application of the French law.'
That would make the FFC responsible for overseeing doping controls if the UCI withdraws its anti-doping officials. The UCI could also threaten to keep ASO races outside of its proposed scheme of anti-doping passports.
The rift could also jeopardize the Tour de France, with the UCI threatening to withdraw anti-doping regulators from the sport's marquee event if organizers and French cycling authorities do not hold their events under the UCI's jurisdiction.
The UCI and ASO have been increasingly at odds, with the dispute escalating at last year's Tour.
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The good thing is that ASO is not yielding to the bullying of McQuaint. I hope he gets kicked out of the cycling sport somehow. IMO, he is the number one enemy to pro-cycling today.