Marc Madiot calls for team budget caps as ‘Big Four’ dominate the WorldTour
Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, Soudal-QuickStep and Alpecin-Deceuninck have won 73% of WorldTour races in 2023
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What do you think, is Madiot right?
He mentions that the „Big Four“ (?!) of UAE, Soudal-QS, Jumbo and Alpecin-Deceuninck won 73% of WT races in 2023!…
IMHO, Madiot‘s view does not make much sense: everyone knows that Soudal-QS, Jumbo-Visma and Alpecin-D have rather small budgets (considering WT teams).
The WT teams with the biggest budgets might be Ineos, UAE and Bahrain. Madiot better called these three the „Big three“. And Ineos and Bahrain haven’t won yet, WT of 2023.
So, Madiot better be happy about his successful U23 development team, and the way his youngsters in the WT team ride, and better stopped talking in a confusing way, with wrong facts about budget sizes…
Edit: I mean, come on, Mr. Madiot…: Alpecin is main sponsor, and sells hair shampoos. Every little child now knows that such a company is just not able to offer Roodhooft‘s team an enormous budget. They just don‘t have the money. The key for this impressive team is the knowledge and patience of the brothers Roodhooft, and the strength of the rider Mathieu van der Poel. And he is riding for Alpecin-D, not for Groupama. Certainly every team would want that he rides for them…
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