Only just saw this post now. Thanks for being more precise about "owning" TdF than I was trying to be concise. My point was Clerc's anti-UCI sentiment, not "owning" TdF.
Don't you think it's interesting that Amaury owns l'Equipe and that l"Equipe is now going to town on UCI? Seems a change from 2008...
And what do you make of the rumoured Sarkozy interventions to get Clerc removed in 2008? Sometimes politics plays behind the scenes and what we see being played out has reasons. Maybe there were (also) good business reasons for Amaury to remove Clerc (as opposed to UCI reasons).
Another one of my personal learnings over the past months is that much of the discussion here seems very US/UK centric, with some ANZ thrown in for good measure. There's a whole additional dynamic playing in Benelux and France that we are largely missing, and struggle to penetrate, presumably because of language reasons. A decent group of dutch here, some rather broken
, but few French. Once you ride and speak with the local french you realize they think quite differently. You also get a sense for how big cycling is at a community level. Would it not be great to have a translation engine on this board that allows the french to read & participate in these discussions.
Just googled Armstrong, Clerc, Amaury and Sarkozy; Interesting link here that illustrates some of above that Big Ring will probably also like.
http://wadawatch.blogspot.sg/2009/06/deux-canards-laques.html
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