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    State of the Peloton 2025

    You want a more hyped up, on edge peloton?
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    Teams & Riders Everybody needs a little bit of Roglstomp in their lives

    Crashes can do that. If Pog and UAE back off the Vuelta then maybe something. Much else will be a welcome surprise.
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    Music! What are you listening to now?

    View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoJOiPf5zI&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    There’s also a retrenchment to mercantile nationalism that’s consistent in their PR around cycling.
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    His lawyers and theirs may have different interpretations.
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    Things I’m seeing indicate that he did terminate the contract. That wouldn’t mean that he can’t be pursued for damages.
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    It’s amusing and not out of bounds. Realistically no, and more depressing as you suggest.
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    If anything it would sue him. Probably not built into the overhyped contract.
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    So as ever it seems arbitrary and arcane. Potentially prejudicial. But people got paid to write it out.
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    It could be a mess otherwise. So you’re making a distinction between basic procedural issues and more ethical ones as in this case?
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    Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

    Yeah, his Wiki results don’t clear 2018.
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    The UCI is based in Switzerland; presumably why contract disputes would be subject to Swiss law. @RHD: kidnapping a rider probably wouldn’t produce the best results without dragging their family into it.
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    Teams & Riders Chris Froome Discussion Thread.

    In the five years with the squad, he has finished in the top-20 of a race just six times. In 2023, IPT's owner, Sylvan Adams, has said that signing the Tour winner was “absolutely not” value for money...
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    Teams & Riders Israel Premier Tech

    A WT license is three years; as ever, it seems that who holds or owns it can probably change.