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Breaking Away - "Top cycling teams explore creating new competitive league"

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National Cycling League goes under - https://velo.outsideonline.com/road...w-the-national-cycling-league-abruptly-ended/
"According to sources, in just a few minutes in a one-way conversation, officials told riders that the series was “out of money, pausing operations, and all contracts are terminated effective immediately,” said one source, who requested anonymity.

The call was brief, less than five minutes, and no one was allowed to ask any questions, sources said.

An e-mail was forwarded providing written and legal notices, including a reminder that a non-disclosure agreement remained in effect despite the termination of contracts.

Riders were paid through April — with salaries reportedly at only $3,000 per season for top riders — and had until Tuesday to put in expense reports."

So how will this impact the big OneCycling project?
Denver Disrupted.
 
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Escape Collective has a piece on ONE CYCLING backed by Saudi money (at first I wrote BAKED, without the "C". well, that fits too...)

The proponents of pro road racing's ambitious reform plan are optimistic that it’s finally going to happen in the coming weeks.
 
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ASO will definitely not participate, they want to keep the money and power for themselves.

what people don't understand is that ASO has and needs a partnership with the French government. They have to use public roads for their races. The Tour is only the Tour cause they can use the French mountains and scenery. Even if the ASO would like the Saudi money, I doubt the French government would let them ruin their race.
 
what people don't understand is that ASO has and needs a partnership with the French government. They have to use public roads for their races. The Tour is only the Tour cause they can use the French mountains and scenery. Even if the ASO would like the Saudi money, I doubt the French government would let them ruin their race.
That's true, but I also think there's a lot of ego in it. Some people prefer to be the biggest fish in the pond, instead of a smaller one in the ocean.
 
That's true, but I also think there's a lot of ego in it. Some people prefer to be the biggest fish in the pond, instead of a smaller one in the ocean.

there's NOTHING One Cycling and the Saudis can do to take away from us Le Pic du Midi de Bigorre or Le Col de La Croix de Fer or the Albi Cathedral view with the peloton rolling by.
I'll watch the TDF with teams Nice Metropole, Van Rysel Roubaix, Wagner, Tarletetto, Arkea and Burgos rather than a circuit race.
ASO and the TDF will become the last standing ones, even if forced by the French government (which I'll thank always)
 
there's NOTHING One Cycling and the Saudis can do to take away from us Le Pic du Midi de Bigorre or Le Col de La Croix de Fer or the Albi Cathedral view with the peloton rolling by.
I'll watch the TDF with teams Nice Metropole, Van Rysel Roubaix, Wagner, Tarletetto, Arkea and Burgos rather than a circuit race.
ASO and the TDF will become the last standing ones, even if forced by the French government (which I'll thank always)
I don't think they want to do that. Like I said, I'm looking forward to the proposed plan.