World tour likely to die in 2015

[The Hitch]

let me get my handkerchief.

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=59723

 

[Netserk]

let me get my handkerchief.

http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=59723

 

[LaFlorecita]

As long as we don't get something even more ridiculous like World series I am happy

 

[SafeBet]

And what's gonna happen next? Does the article say anything about it?

 

[hiero2]

Me encante ese bebe! Perfecto!

And what's gonna happen next? Does the article say anything about it?

Especulación, puro, basado en el WorldTour actualmente no tiene un mandato UCI pasado 2014. Aún así, me gustaría que ASO y RCS formaría su propia liga.

 

[janraaskalt]

Me encante ese bebe! Perfecto!



Especulación, puro, basado en el WorldTour actualmente no tiene un mandato UCI pasado 2014. Aún así, me gustaría que ASO y RCS formaría su propia liga.

In English please.

 

[SafeBet]

In English please.

He says he'd like UCI and RCS to build their own league/program, I guess.

 

[El Pistolero]

Bring back the World Cup and name Gilbert retrospective winner of 2009-2011.

 

[the asian]

What replaces it is the biggest question. If Bakala's World Series becomes a reality, it will become a borefest.

Personally I wouldn't like divisions and various cycling leagues running concurrently. Hopefully all the parties can get together and forge a comprise and have one Tour/League with the UCI auspices.

 

[Parrulo]

praise the lord!!!!

like pisti said, bring back the old world cup and let the organizers fully choose the teams they want in their races

 

[airstream]

WC and WT are just a wordy husk. The main thing main races will always live.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Let's wait until we see what replaces it before we break out the Kool and the Gang.

If it's a bunch of four day races with a flat stage, a hilly stage, a mountain stage and an ITT like was mooted, then this will result in some fugly changes to the calendar.

I have a chaque that unless McQuaid and Hein go AND the UCI is no longer able to create and promote its own races and decide what races have what status OR tailor parcours to suit the riders managed by relatives of the upper echelons of management, this isn't going to be the great carnival we want.

I want race organisers to have more freedom to decide who they have at their races. I want races to stand on their own two feet, not have their status elevated by arbitrary or, worse, conspiratorial decisions designed to strangle those races the UCI can't milk for as much money in the audiences they have deliberately chosen to target for income (read: not France, Italy, Belgium or Spain, since those guys are already watching). I want races to have to prove they have some level of identity and bring something worthwhile to the sport before they get arbitrarily called more important than races like Paris-Tours or Omloop (I don't care if they get arbitrarily called more important than Scheldeprijs though).

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The ASO tour?
I would prefer RCS-series instead.
Good luck with that.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The ASO tour?
I would prefer RCS-series instead.
Good luck with that.

Without Zomegnan it is nothing.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Without Zomegnan it is nothing.

lol, I kind of like the new guy. A bit of a learning curve, but he has some good ideas.

 

[Duartista]

Good news unless it is replaced by this World Series thing or something similar. In which case, it becomes terrible news. Anyone seen the consultation website mentioned in the article?

 

[hiero2]

In English please.

He says he'd like UCI and RCS to build their own league/program, I guess.

In English please? My friend, have you ever heard the term, LMGTFY? Hehehe, the original is in Espanol, and I felt it might be appropriate to exercise our mouse fingers to navigate on over to the translator.

Oh - and since when does ASO = UCI ????

But anyway - this is speculation. Media dramatics, apparently basing it on the current World Tour or Series or whatever the UCI is currently calling it, having no plans or authorization beyond 2014. Towards the end, they talk about ASO and RCS being strong enough to get together and start their own cycling league. Which, at this point in time, I would welcome.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

that world series thing will never happen. aso will laugh that idiot bakala straight out of their offices

 

[Peccio89]

World series won't succeed if ASO+RCS+flanders classic stay together against it, what sponsor ultimately care about is racing in the big events ( mainly the tour).
It's time for the organizers to step up and start managing the sport.

 

[MatParker117]

World Series is going nowhere without Sky, having the Murdoch empire behind it would be a big thing.

 

[SafeBet]

In English please? My friend, have you ever heard the term, LMGTFY? Hehehe, the original is in Espanol, and I felt it might be appropriate to exercise our mouse fingers to navigate on over to the translator.

Oh - and since when does ASO = UCI ????

But anyway - this is speculation. Media dramatics, apparently basing it on the current World Tour or Series or whatever the UCI is currently calling it, having no plans or authorization beyond 2014. Towards the end, they talk about ASO and RCS being strong enough to get together and start their own cycling league. Which, at this point in time, I would welcome.

yeah I meant aso of course. Guess it was clear anyway.
I don't get the rest of your post nor the acronym.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Apart from the weird **** races in beijing etc I really don't think there is much wrong with the world tour.

 

[LaFlorecita]

yeah I meant aso of course. Guess it was clear anyway.
I don't get the rest of your post nor the acronym.

let me google that for you

iow we shouldn't moan about a post written in Spanish but just use google (translate) seems weird coming from a mod

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Apart from the weird **** races in beijing etc I really don't think there is much wrong with the world tour.

this, except that wt should only be 12-15 teams, no more. then it's perfect

 

[lukinox]

this, except that wt should only be 12-15 teams, no more. then it's perfect

I agree with you on that. I seem to remember that the first 7 teams on the world cup ranking had the right to participate on the biggest races, that imo was a good system cause the ranking could change throughout the season and teams were racing hard to stay in the top seven and also gave race organizers more choice on the teams to invite. I wouldn't mind a world tour with only 15 teams.