Tour of Hangzhou added to WorldTour

[Gloin22]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/season-ending-tour-of-hangzhou-added-to-worldtour-calendar

****. I hoped for great WT race in Colmbia and we have another **** race in China. Dam you UCI

 

[El Pistolero]

No thank you, I don't and never will consider you WT. Bye.

 

[Kvinto]

another obscure race no one needs... no one but the UCI

 

[theyoungest]

Goddamn it UCI, get the hell out with this crap! If you're so concerned with the future of cycling, try to get the Chinese to sponsor some of the Spanish races that riders actually want to race.

 

[The Hitch]

Bad news imo.

 

[Fetisoff]

Bad news imo.

Works fine for me


But yeah, wtf either make one tour worth watching, or make it couple one day races worth watching, like in Canada.

 

[FF'Wilco]

All depends on route. If its going to be interesting race with some decent parcours noone will complain a lot about race itself (about uci and their strange ideas i guess evryone will complain ) But honestly im expecting something similiar to Bejing meaning extremely boring race with almost flat stages only. No action. And gc decided on time trial.

 

[Der Effe]

It's about time the cycling teams boycot the UCI. Only in it to fill their own pockets but couldn't give a **** about the riders. When are they gonna put on Armstrong on trial? The biggest fraud in the history of cycling. Oh no, they won't. He made them a lot of money.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Uhm... What the fvck?

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

sorry...... what?!


Tour of Hangzhou?!

 

[Mellow Velo]

Meh.
It's down for October 17-21 of this year, so what's the problem.
Another race to watch and after the normal season end.
Call it WT if they want, I don't care.
In any case, we all know that the World Tour is really called the Money Tour.

On a separate, but similar theme.
Has anybody else noticed Dave Harmon is now plugging the Tour of Taiwan?
Seems Eurosport are bringing this little known "gem", live to our screens, this month.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Lol.

2013, the UCI cancels the Tour de Suisse to make room in the World Tour calendar for the Tour of the United Arab Emirates. Which doesn't have a Jebel Hafeet MTF either.

By 2020, the WorldTour calendar consists entirely of races that had never held an edition prior to 2005.

 

[Carols]

Well if it has decent parcours I'll watch it But this is getting kind of silly IMO....

 

[Christian]

If they want WorldTour races in Asia they should just upgrade already existing ones like Langkawi and Qinghai Lake instead of making up these new ones

 

[togo95]

this is ridiculous

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

what the ****. nobody needs this

 

[Fetisoff]

what the ****. nobody needs this

And yet, I bet 95% of the regulars on the CN forums will discuss stupid it is, and how there's no spectators, while watching it live.



Could even be some climbing there from the looks of the city skyline
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Hangzhou_Wulin_CBD_Overview.png

 

[Nick C.]

What are the odds the race will be put on by McQuaid's brother's company. Wasn't that or something similar the case with the Tour of Bejing?

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Meh.
It's down for October 17-21 of this year, so what's the problem.
Another race to watch and after the normal season end.
Call it WT if they want, I don't care.
In any case, we all know that the World Tour is really called the Money Tour.

Agreed. Huangzhou's air pollution is nowhere near as bad as Beijing's, so I can't really fault it.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

My problem with these new WT stage races is that they give as many points as winning the Tour of Flanders, Paris Roubaix or Liege Bastogne Liege. Which, if you think about it, is ridicolous and should never happen.

Now some ***-clown who has some late season form and decides to go for the Chinese races can suddenly destroy the World Tour ranking
Imagine Michael Rogers feels good in october, wins both races and wins the World Tour as a result?

 

[Fetisoff]

Meh, did too many people really care about who wins the world tour, even before more and more of these started appearing on the calendar?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I care... that's enough for me.

I just want a normal official (so not CQ) UCI ranking which is somewhat realistic in showing who's the best rider over the year.
WT is a joke

 

[Fetisoff]

I care... that's enough for me.

I just want a normal official (so not CQ) UCI ranking which is somewhat realistic in showing who's the best rider over the year.
WT is a joke

Well, they have their official ranking which they use to evaluate the sporting criteria, which is closer to CQ than it is to WT..... Problem is they don't show these ranking off to anybody

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Mark_Renshaw Mark Renshaw
So another race in October, just great... Teams struggle to fill races after July.

 

[trevim]

Portugal (since 1927) is 2.1, Colombia (since 1951) is 2.2, Qatar (since 2002) is 2.HC, California (since 2006) is 2.HC, Oman (since 2010) is 2.HC.....

Why do they call it Historical Calendar?

About World Tour, I agree with Dekker, it's just wrong that crap races like Beijing give the same points as monuments and truely important races.