Weak McQuaid singing from SA Tourism's Book

[Pelican]

Got to say both Pat McQuaid and Mike Turtur - two men charged with the betterment of the sport - are hopelessly conflicted, out of touch, and just plain wrong when it comes to their lack of support for moving the Sun Tour to run immediately after the TdU. Turtur, for his part, you can understand his reasoning - which is purely self-centered and against the good of the sport in his Oceania region. But for McQuaid, the weak minded always confrontational Irish thug to jump on the bandwagon; while not surprising (the sooner the sport gets rid of him the better off it will be) just goes totally against his own strategy for globalising the sport. He's given two Pro-Tour events to Quebec for the exact same reasoning as the Sun Tour move provides.

Turtur, you're a conflicted bully! McQuaid, you're F*#king useless. And one last shot at SA Tourism - show some big picture thinking and look to the good of the sport, rather than protectionist narrow mindedness.

 

[brianf7]

They could do the alpine classic a week later that would sort out a few sprinters.

Got to say both Pat McQuaid and Mike Turtur - two men charged with the betterment of the sport - are hopelessly conflicted, out of touch, and just plain wrong when it comes to their lack of support for moving the Sun Tour to run immediately after the TdU. Turtur, for his part, you can understand his reasoning - which is purely self-centered and against the good of the sport in his Oceania region. But for McQuaid, the weak minded always confrontational Irish thug to jump on the bandwagon; while not surprising (the sooner the sport gets rid of him the better off it will be) just goes totally against his own strategy for globalising the sport. He's given two Pro-Tour events to Quebec for the exact same reasoning as the Sun Tour move provides.

Turtur, you're a conflicted bully! McQuaid, you're F*#king useless. And one last shot at SA Tourism - show some big picture thinking and look to the good of the sport, rather than protectionist narrow mindedness.

 

[badboyberty]

Got to say both Pat McQuaid and Mike Turtur - two men charged with the betterment of the sport - are hopelessly conflicted, out of touch, and just plain wrong when it comes to their lack of support for moving the Sun Tour to run immediately after the TdU. Turtur, for his part, you can understand his reasoning - which is purely self-centered and against the good of the sport in his Oceania region. But for McQuaid, the weak minded always confrontational Irish thug to jump on the bandwagon; while not surprising (the sooner the sport gets rid of him the better off it will be) just goes totally against his own strategy for globalising the sport. He's given two Pro-Tour events to Quebec for the exact same reasoning as the Sun Tour move provides.

Turtur, you're a conflicted bully! McQuaid, you're F*#king useless. And one last shot at SA Tourism - show some big picture thinking and look to the good of the sport, rather than protectionist narrow mindedness.

It's not SA Tourism's job to look after Victorian cycling fans.

McQuaid and Turtur are thinking about the development of cycling in this country. Since the TdU went ProTour the HST is the premium race Continental licenced teams can compete at. Stop whinging about not having enough foreign stars at the HST and get out on the side of the road next October and support the Aussies teams like Fly-V and Drapac that are doing the real work of developing the sport in this country.

If anything what they should do is leave the Sun Tour where it is but find someone who's willing to stage a 1.HC race in the Victorian highlands in early February. Makes a lot more sense than screwing with 50 years of HST history just to jump on the coat-tails of the TdU.

 

[Spare Tyre]

If anything what they should do is leave the Sun Tour where it is but find someone who's willing to stage a 1.HC race in the Victorian highlands in early February. Makes a lot more sense than screwing with 50 years of HST history just to jump on the coat-tails of the TdU.

What do you mean, screw with 50 years of HST history? Pretty sure the Sun Tour used to be in January.

 

[badboyberty]

What do you mean, screw with 50 years of HST history? Pretty sure the Sun Tour used to be in January.

Just worried about the exclusion of Australian based riders and teams by trying getting it rated higher than 2.HC.

 

[mtrejt]

One solution to most of cycling's ills. Get rid of the UCI...Let national feds and the race directors run the show. The ASO never should have backed off of its threat to go their own way. What would the situation look like if all of the major races were removed from UCI involvement?