The Shrinking Vuelta

[cyclingPRpro]

Per The Inner Ring: Vuelta to shrink from 3 weeks to 2.

@inrng the Inner Ring
From 2013 onwards the Vuelta a España will shrink from three weeks to two weeks.
3 minutes ago via web

https://twitter.com/#!/inrng/statuses/151955799722299393

 

[Michielveedeebee]

I hope that is Bullsheit

 

[Michielveedeebee]

https://twitter.com/#!/inrng

and it is BS indeed, it's the Spanish equivalent of the 1 of April today

 

[jens_attacks]

it was talked before,it won't happen

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Per The Inner Ring: Vuelta to shrink from 3 weeks to 2.

@inrng the Inner Ring
From 2013 onwards the Vuelta a España will shrink from three weeks to two weeks.
3 minutes ago via web

https://twitter.com/#!/inrng/statuses/151955799722299393

that;s bs obviously can't believe idiots post that here

 

[hrotha]

Yeah, it's not like it's been talked about many times in the last decade, including by the organizers themselves.

Anyway, I love that our silly jokes day is different from everyone else's. We caught everybody off their guards all the time.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Yeah, it's not like it's been talked about many times in the last decade, including by the organizers themselves.

Anyway, I love that our silly jokes day is different from everyone else's. We caught everybody off their guards all the time.

Congrats!

 

[cyclingPRpro]

Dammit... I am gonna kill him. Had no idea there was a different version of "April Fools Day"

And Ryo... can you talk smack about anyone? Really? Bite me.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

I don't care about talking smack I simply can't stand people that are stupid or say stupid things. with one brain cell one could think this isn't true. that's not even a trustable cycling source anyway

 

[The Hitch]

Well that scared me for a sec. Really did. Glad to hear its not for real.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

I don't care about talking smack I simply can't stand people that are stupid or say stupid things. with one brain cell one could think this isn't true. that's not even a trustable cycling source anyway

be nice will you? i got scared there for a second or 2, so did some others here, so unless you care to call us all stupid, it was a pretty good joke

 

[auscyclefan94]

I don't care about talking smack I simply can't stand people that are stupid or say stupid things. with one brain cell one could think this isn't true. that's not even a trustable cycling source anyway

So ultimately you can't stand yourself?

 

[Martin318is]

Enough with the personal stuff

 

[Kwibus]

I don't care about talking smack I simply can't stand people that are stupid or say stupid things. with one brain cell one could think this isn't true. that's not even a trustable cycling source anyway

I love it when you say things like this.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

I love it when you say things like this.

it always gets him banned now doesn't it

 

[Cobblestoned]

it was talked before,it won't happen

y

I guess it's same procedure as every year, jens

 

[El Pistolero]

I'd say quality over quantity, but a two week Vuelta would still be as crappy as a three week Vuelta.

 

[Kwibus]

it always gets him banned now doesn't it

In the Netherlands and Belgium we call this "Een plank voor je kop"

And not a small one either.

 

[Cobblestoned]

What really made me laugh, is this Catalan tradition


Those Catalan caganers

 

[Cobblestoned]

In the Netherlands and Belgium we call this "Een plank voor je kop"

And not a small one either.

Had ik toch gezegd, jonge.

Rucki Zucki banned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1CrUWeIxlI&feature=related

 

[Michielveedeebee]

In the Netherlands and Belgium we call this "Een plank voor je kop"

And not a small one either.

In west-flanders we say: ie moet ma wetn

 

[sublimit]

What really made me laugh, is this Catalan tradition


Those Catalan caganers

that is neat, looks like Messi on the first one. We need a Pat Mcquaid and a Vlad Putin version of those models. Not a prophet Mohamed one though for obvious reasons.

 

[The Hitch]

Absolutely delighted its not true. I was worried there for a minute.

I guess if pat mcquaid had his way he would not just do it to the vuelta he would also do it the giro.

He said it in this interview:

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/6...duce-the-duration-of-the-Giro-and-Vuelta.aspx

That piece ****ed me off so much I remember exactly where I was and what my thoughts were and what the time was, when I read it.

It was the moment Mcquaid crossed the Rubicon for me. From then on I could not support any policy in cycling that left that man in charge.

To think the **** then had the audacity to make a video appearance at the Giro route presentation saying " We at the UCi have always seen the Giro as a special race"

**** him.

 

[Parrulo]

I think any support mcquaid had amoung cycling fans went out the window with his comments about reducing the giro and the vuelta.

I am just wondering if he really pushed for this would RCS run the giro and ASO and Unipublic run the vuelta as a three week race outside the UCI jurisdiction.

the RCS definitively would, no way would the italians let the giro be disrespected like that. the spanish wouldn't like the decision either so it wouldn't surprise me to see the 3 organizations splitting from the UCI and taking with them all the races they organize like they did in the past.

 

[ultimobici]

the RCS definitively would, no way would the italians let the giro be disrespected like that. the spanish wouldn't like the decision either so it wouldn't surprise me to see the 3 organizations splitting from the UCI and taking with them all the races they organize like they did in the past.

What McQuaid & the UCI need to remember is that between them RCS & ASO own most of the top races. ASO own the Tour, P-R LBL & Flèche. RCS own MSR, Lombardia & the Giro. As a result they wield enormous clout within the sport. Pat needs them, not the other way round.