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Either it’s going to be largely irrelevant due to never being used, or they’ll be tightening up enforcement a great deal. I really don’t think either of those 2 options is a good thing.
One thing is for sure : at first, they will be over-zealous to show that they "are doing something" and that "it works".
Be ready to see some ridiculous judgments beginning of next year...
 
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Not sure how this will play out -
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/founders-buys-back-gcn-from-warner-bros
GCN has been sold by Warner Bros. Discovery to its founder, Simon Wear, and CEO Mia Walter.

A majority stake in Play Sports Network, the company behind the YouTube channel and website, was sold back to Wear and Walter this week, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
I watch a few things often.. Itchy Boots, a woman from Holland that rides a smaller cc motorcycle all over and another annoying guy named Nick Johnson who goes around the US showing how screwed up everything, everyone is..Itchy has 2.3 million subs, Johnson has 977k . I saw a few videos about what they are getting paid from YouTube. I also watch some other cycling stuff, way less subscriber base. When it was on I watched GCN race highlights, often good to excellent and normally less than @10 minutes. Don't know what Chris Horner is making.He has 80k..GCN has 3.25 million. Jumping around Johnson is estimated to make @$165,000usd.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=95ix1S9cTWE&pp=ygUqaG93IG11Y2ggZG9lcyBpdGNoeSBib290cyBtYWtlIG9uIHlvdXR1YmUg
 
His team has long ceased to be. & yeah he was a TV pundit - i guess Blythe was cheaper. Pick a sport, any sport, theres thousands of former pros & very few pundit/coaching jobs going. Nevermind the stars, you've spent your whole life being good at just one thing, then in your mid 30's you're on your own. I wholly support the idea of coming up with a support system or something for former pros to help them adapt to normal life & find a new career.
 
Hasn't he literalled have had a team and is on the motorbike/studio in for many races? Also there seems to be a lot former riders still very much affiliated with the sport in some way or the other, and Im sure it would be relatively easy for a rider with his stature to get a decent job
Wiggins has a strong love/hate relationship with cycling so the normal post-riding careers are not really his thing. He's blown a small fortune from what I've read so that does not help. If WT-teams through the UCI are compelled to some time dedicated to education or work-training for retiring cyclists, then it could help the less well off.
I seem to remember that the French have a system for retiring riders (maybe it was Mr Ring who wrote about it) so that they have at least a good education for a second career. Pozzovivo famously has degrees and should not have problems after this, his last, year in the peloton.
 
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