The way ahead?

andyp
andyp Posts: 10,549
edited July 2007 in Pro race
www.cycling4all.com are reporting that ASO are going to start a new Professional Cycling League. Discussions have been held with certain teams already.

It's inevitable isn't it? The UCI have been busy trying to set up the Pro Tour whilst the sport heads towards crisis, fiddling whilst Rome burns.

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  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    You mean a commercial organization will control an entire sport at professional level?

    Sounds like a good business plan for somebody...
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    It was bound to happen sooner or later. And it might just be the way ahead.

    It will marginalise the sport even more for a while but if that's what it takes. Then again, ASO have the biggest events so it's got a chance of working.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    I'm looking forward to a breakaway league with much stricter controls like blood profiling, which probably would've done for Vino before he could steal people's wins and drag the race down.
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  • oily sailor
    oily sailor Posts: 235
    Sounds like a logical idea. I guess you'll have the members of the new league in ASO races and then a juicers league taking part in maybe the Giro and the Vuelta and selected other races. Could make the Paris Roubaix/Flanders double interesting as one is ASO and one is not.
  • Salsiccia
    Salsiccia Posts: 405
    I can see the Giro and Vuelta getting on side with ASO as all three big tours are naffed off with the UCI and it's ProTour. Hopefully they will as the big races need to stick together. Hopefully this will bring down the UCI, Hein Verbruggen, Pat 'Yes, Hein' McQuaid and all.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    To be credible it has to lay down clear and coherent testing criteria that are applicable to all the riders who join it.

    As for races, well ASO has quite a collection and I'm sure it could tempt RCS to join too which would bring Milan-San Remo, the Giro and the Tour of Lombardy too.

    I bet McQuaid threatens them with legal action before the day is out though. :roll:
  • oily sailor
    oily sailor Posts: 235
    The UCI can then promote the EPO Tour of Califonia, The Juice Loose Aboot This Hoose Tour of Kazakhstan and the one day classic Zurich to Shanghai (motor paced until Turkmenistan)
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    oily sailor wrote:
    The UCI can then promote the EPO Tour of Califonia, The Juice Loose Aboot This Hoose Tour of Kazakhstan and the one day classic Zurich to Shanghai (motor paced until Turkmenistan)
    :lol::lol:

    I trust Patrice Clerc is signing you up to help promote his new league? :wink:

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