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

[Potomac]

I read in the Inner Ring blog that costs for sponsoring a cycling team is outgrowing the cost of inflation.

I think that indicates the sport is growing.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Hasn’t grown as fast as other sports at all.

Growing in which aspects?

When looking at the Financial aspect and comparing it with for example football that might be a good thing. Basically all clubs at high level are bleeding money that the owners have to cover just so already super rich players make even more money and sleezy agents gets a big piece of the cake. At the same time prices for watching football on TV is sky rocketing and the same with ticket prices, resulting in for example more and more rich tourists on the grounds of Premier League team instead of locals and worse atmosphere in the stadium. There is a lot of negative things connected to this growth,

 

[E_F_]

OneCycling is a terrible "proposal" (or lack thereof), but that doesn't mean that cycling wouldn't benefit massively from not eating away at itself from all angles. The teams, the organizers, and the governing body should just get together and make a single entity.

 

[Potomac]

OneCycling is a terrible "proposal" (or lack thereof), but that doesn't mean that cycling wouldn't benefit massively from not eating away at itself from all angles. The teams, the organizers, and the governing body should just get together and make a single entity.

How do the teams be part of single entity?

 

[E_F_]

How do the teams be part of single entity?

By emulating the sports leagues with the highest revenues..?

 

[Potomac]

By emulating the sports leagues with the highest revenues..?

The teams in these leagues are distinct entities, are they not?

 

[E_F_]

The teams in these leagues are distinct entities, are they not?

Not always. Of course even in soccer the teams often run the competitions themselves, but I think franchising works a lot better.

 

[saunaking]

By emulating the sports leagues with the highest revenues..?

Why?
One cycling is nothing but a move by the teams/owners to try and grab as much money as possible. They care ZERO for the history or culture or the fans of the sport.
If you listen all you hear about is 'brining new fans' and 'creating a narrative'

I get it, but F THAT and F THEM.

They literally think it is bad to have more race days than calendar days.
They think it is bad that Tirreno and P-N overlap
They think its bad that some TDF riders will be in the Dauphanie and some in Suisse

If some Saudi offered them $100M to have a 5 race series in the desert, yes, they would be all over it.

Cycling is not football, NFL, or F1. Compare it to other endurance sports - xc skiing, triathlon, marathon.

It is top of the heap.

Don't change cycling, you are beautiful

UCI UAE supertucks, socks i dont care, its so Fing awesome

Boo hoo, cycling team owners are never gonna sell their teams for billions like in the NBA

edit-can we stop the sky is falling bs about the current model being 'unsustainable'? What 120 years now? Stronger than ever