The much needed UCI loller thread

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So you mean, as a team manager, you DO actually have to use a tiny portion of your brain and not randomly pick someone. Right.
There are not many riders with a similar profile to Aerts. The likes of Vanthourenhout, Sweeck and Iserbyt have long histories of doing nothing on the road, and fulltime track and MTB commitments are harder to combine with a road schedule. The only big-name full-time CX rider who has shown real promise on the road is Pim Ronhaar, and he would probably join Lidl if he really went for it anyway. So I don't really see which rider can be used to properly game the system for the teams fighting for promotion/relegation.

On the women's side of things, I do see some candidates, but there you need to be in the top-8 of your team which is not a small ask.
 
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There are not many riders with a similar profile to Aerts. The likes of Vanthourenhout, Sweeck and Iserbyt have long histories of doing nothing on the road, and fulltime track and MTB commitments are harder to combine with a road schedule. The only big-name full-time CX rider who has shown real promise on the road is Pim Ronhaar, and he would probably join Lidl if he really went for it anyway. So I don't really see which rider can be used to properly game the system for the teams fighting for promotion/relegation.

On the women's side of things, I do see some candidates, but there you need to be in the top-8 of your team which is not a small ask.
The fact that Aerts fits the bill is proof enough. Then there are also guys like Lander Loockx for instance who even gets more points than Aerts. I don't follow track or MTB but i can perfectly imagine there also being riders that could fit the bill. And maybe there aren't many right at this moment, but they do exist, and maybe next year or the year after that there will be more. You can also see certain teams and riders work towards this. The opportunity to rig the system is there. Whether there are many riders to do it doesn't matter imho.

And what about the other way around? What about sending your road domestiques to 3rd rate CX races in France and Czechia during winter? This might be a good evolution for CX of course, but not really what RR is for.
 
And what about the other way around? What about sending your road domestiques to 3rd rate CX races in France and Czechia during winter? This might be a good evolution for CX of course, but not really what RR is for.
Only the World Championship and World Cup will count towards the road team rankings. Which also means that someone like Loockx will contribute very little in terms of points scored in CX.
 
Selfie has been reelected as the UCI president. Had no idea this was even happening, next time we must put our top mind and best analyst forward to challenge him.


Comments section is basically the entire nation of Rwanda sending their congrats, funny stuff;

View: https://x.com/DLappartient/status/1971264548733845655
 
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Selfie has been reelected as the UCI president. Had no idea this was even happening, next time we must put our top mind and best analyst forward to challenge him.


Comments section is basically the entire nation of Rwanda sending their congrats, funny stuff;

View: https://x.com/DLappartient/status/1971264548733845655

Can we trust this tweet or was Remco the actual winner of this one, too?
 
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So it seems that five teams could lose their WT licence, due to calling UCI out over GPS tracking controversy.
So teams can lose their WT licence because of a stupid GPS spat, but nothing can be done about the chaos at the Vuelta ... Is this Lappi's new tough guy approach after his recent non-election election win? Or if he turns up to work in a brand new Lambo, I'm smelling a rat!
 

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