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clotho2 said:
Mark Cavendish, in an article I read this morning is wondering why HTC-Columbia hasn't gotten and bites for a new sponsor at year's end.

Mark, maybe it has to do with all the doping news, rumors, truths, and questions. Aside from the fact that lots of businesses are pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, why would I want to pour money into any cycling team with all the doping questions out there?

They make me sick! Really and literally sick. I was convinced of 7 times winner of the Tour De France Lance Armstrong's guilt. I had just gotten back to liking the TDF when this Contador scandal broke and dashed my desires to even patronize any cycling events.

Any business that supports cycling these days may as well be pushers. According to those who testify about the doping it widespread. matschiner said it's as necessary to winning the Tour as having breakfast; And someone said "You can't win the tour without doping".

YOU CAN'T WIN THE TOUR WITHOUT DOPING!!!

Then has doping been around since in inception of TDF? A rider get suspended for doping and after serving the suspension dopes again and races gets caught again. It's a never ever take that in the faces of WADA and UCI and any other drug watch group.

Who said he tested over 200 times and half of those he had illegal substance in his body. Why didn't UCI catch it? Or did they do as with Lance(allegedly) turn a blind eye because winning is good for a growing sport? UGH!!! Makes me sick.

I love Big George Hincapie and had great respect for him. Landis if I'm not mistaken, has called him out in the Armstrong doping and BG was with Armstrong during his wins. I just got sick at the thought that George may have been doping. I can't root for any of them not truly knowing if they are clean or dopers. Not even Cav.

Were I a corporate business, I wouldn't touch any of them with a ten foot pole.

***BTW, Mark Cavendish, I applaud your helping the people of India. I support David Archuleta who supports 'Rising Star Outreach' which helps support the children of India.

If any of you are ever so inclined please support RSO.com ...





belief me lance is clean. all the talk about big george being doper is untrue. If He had been a doper he would have won many more races. Cause the new dope makes you go 15 percent faster. if big george hada been a dopin he would have won races like roubaix by say 45 minutes. Do the math!
 
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Highlander said:
Quote: I support David Archuleta who supports 'Rising Star Outreach' which helps support the children of India.

Who is David Archuleta and what team does he ride for?

*snickers* Highlander there is a world beyond cycling, and while I may have been improper to post that, David Archuleta is a young singer and author.

 
Oct 8, 2010
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Libertine Seguros said:
They've found two new sponsors in a short period of time after T-Mobile went under.

Please. HTC is a cell phone company and was a bro deal for Stapleton, himself a former VIP at T-Mobile. Do you honestly think that if you or I asked HTC to sponsor a team they would?

As for Columbia, they are also based in the Pacific Northwest and another bro deal.

I don't see Stapleton being able to find a new sponsor if it's based on merit.
 
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Please. HTC is a cell phone company and was a bro deal for Stapleton, himself a former VIP at T-Mobile. Do you honestly think that if you or I asked HTC to sponsor a team they would?
No, because neither of us are running a successful cycling team. Or at least I'm not, can't make assumptions about you. But HTC came on board during the 2009 Tour - while the team had already had a great spring including winning a monument and several stages of the Giro and Tour de Suisse.

As for Columbia, they are also based in the Pacific Northwest and another bro deal.
That may have been a bro deal on the basis that the team were in a tough place. But they got a lot out of it, no? It's not like it was charity.

I don't see Stapleton being able to find a new sponsor if it's based on merit.
Which teams DO you think could find a sponsor based on merit, if not the team with the most wins in the world for the last two years?
 
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and as for the original question, yes drugs have quite a history with the TDF. Brandy, opium, and cocaine were the choice of the early years replaced later by speed, poor Tom Simpson.

Doping or not, I really don't care, I love cycling - both to ride and to watch.
 
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When I read this quote in the CN interview, my admiration for Bob Stapleton went up 100%:

"It's not just Contador. It's a bunch of them. You've got the overhang from whatever's going on around Lance Armstrong. It's difficult for people to understand - it's difficult for me to understand."
 
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I want to be special too!

Anyone who has ever attempted to find a sponsor for team/race knows you're not going to get just anyone. I think 99% of the time its a sponsor who is also a cycling fan and somebody at the company who deals with marketing or is high enough up can pull the strings to get it done. Also, friends of friends like other things in life pull through to help out even though they know they will get diddly squat in return in real money/business/sales. OK, a Protour team is a bit different but I know its pretty much the same, a company wants to advertise a new product or company division and there's a friend or friend of friend or relative who needs sponsorship money for their cycling habit. In comes the company and sponsors the team or race, sure they would love extra business to come in through having their company logo on the jersey and hopefully a rider on that team will win to prolong the exposure and burn it in the retinas of some of the fans. Bob has lost Columbia for what ever reason and now has to find a new sponsor, Cavendish is mad most likely because he's not going to get a pay raise as there is no extra cash for that instead he has to maintain his current salary. If I remember right the big name riders get their own sponsorship and make more money that way than through their salary! So Cavendish is being his usual whinney self and sitting on his rear tweeting and posting BS instead of trying to get himself money on the side. Heck even Micheal Rasmussen has a personal sponsor and he's coming back from being banned! I see it as a non-issue, I mean Cavendish has never tested positive an wins a lot so he needs to get off his rear and hit the streets like everyone else does to get sponsorship money. I'm sure Bob is looking under every rock he knows might have a few bucks for extra sponsorship, it takes time. I also doubt the doping news is keeping companies away, remember even bad news is good news in marketing. No news is what is bad.