It is very sad to see the list of the Pro Cycling teams. Only Europeans and Americans. So What did happen with the rest of the world?
In order for cycling to become more developed around the world UCI needs to make some changes to his Pro-tour organizations. I have seen how now is a power of who has the more money. You paid to get in the Tour and in the big races. If a country, lets use an example (Colombia) is trying to get a ProTour team it will be almost impossible to get to that point. Not enough money to get that kind of team racing in Europe all the time. Therefore, the Pro-Tour team organization is killing the cycling there and preventing to have more variety of teams and riders in races like the Tour. In which Colombia has had excellent presentations.
Doping + Pro-Tour not good for cycling. If you love the sport it should try to become more popular and maybe allow different "promotional" teams to join the big races.
In order for cycling to become more developed around the world UCI needs to make some changes to his Pro-tour organizations. I have seen how now is a power of who has the more money. You paid to get in the Tour and in the big races. If a country, lets use an example (Colombia) is trying to get a ProTour team it will be almost impossible to get to that point. Not enough money to get that kind of team racing in Europe all the time. Therefore, the Pro-Tour team organization is killing the cycling there and preventing to have more variety of teams and riders in races like the Tour. In which Colombia has had excellent presentations.
Doping + Pro-Tour not good for cycling. If you love the sport it should try to become more popular and maybe allow different "promotional" teams to join the big races.