thehog said:
What are you doing here Parker? Isn't Walsh the new press agent for Sky?
Making threats against Pat?
Well there was a report not so longer ago about Sky and breakaway leagues. Looks like Cookson is the UCI stooge to make it happen like EPL - (
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...said-to-discuss-breakaway-cycling-series.html)
JV is commissioning marketing reports no one reads.
Looks like the ducks are lining up nicely for the Sky World Series of Cycling.
(I won't tell anyone about the #cough cough business if you don't)
What you cough about is in my opinion the only way to wrestle cycling out of the grips of UCI, ASO and RCS.
Those organisations have far to much power and get far to much revenue from cycling compared to the teams.
What we need i a commissioner to handle all the twists and turns of professionel cycling. Someone independent that could tell ASO to pay for the use of the riders.
Someone that could do a Champions League of cycling. CL was only made because the big footballclubs in Europe threatened to start there own league to generate the billiondollar income that we see today.
ASO sells the TDF to more than a 100 countries and generate enormous revenues that only see on account, The ASOs.
With a professionel league og whatever we want to call it, there would be al large portion of that money going the teams way. That would make it much easier to run a top team.
Make changes, a lot of changes. Take away the teams busses, and let the new league supply them. No cheating can happen in a shared bus.
Make 7 man team in all GTs and larger races. The makes room for a lot more teams and more wildcards.
Let all cycling up to U23 run under the UCI together with track, women, BMX and whatever there are in the cyclingworld.
Make a draft like they have in the US i all major sports. Worst placed team in the Proleague chooses first. Salary caps for alle teams. That way we take away teams like Sky and make the competition more equal.
That is just my 5 cents and more qualified people can find many more ways to run it.
Then last but not least. All antidoping work should be done by an independent agency, that also made the rules that suited cycling best.
I might or might not be a good idea to forbid sugar/sal****er drops just to keep needles out of the sport. It might mean that riders dope instead of just having a sugardrop to handle the next stages. I dont know but maybe.
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