Cinelli - The Odd Squad

blazing_saddles
blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
edited December 2008 in Pro race
I wonder how VDB will feel about his new team, Cinelli's latest signing?

Jaksche to race for salary of one euro
German Jörg Jaksche will race for a salary of one euro when he returns to competition with the Cinelli-OPD after serving a one-year suspension for doping. Jaksche had previously given up on finding a team and thought about studying law until the Cinelli-OPD squad picked him up.

"I am the first professional cyclist to ride for one euro," sais Jaksche according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung. "If necessary, I would ride for nothing. It was important to me that I am the one who decides to end my career."

I'm glad the Omerta buster has finally gotten a ride, but I can't help feeling they are taking the world recession a bit far!
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    It'll be interesting to see how that gets past EU minimum wage regulations.
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • koppenberg
    koppenberg Posts: 32
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    It'll be interesting to see how that gets past EU minimum wage regulations.

    Cinelli are a continental team as such riders are not always pro ie paid you can be Elite with or without contract in the case of this team just one or two paid pro riders-is norm on a conti team-you are a pro once you reach pro conti & above
  • mylesrants
    mylesrants Posts: 37
    ONE EURO TOO MUCH

    dopers get the most media coverage.
    we need to move on and forget the cheats.

    promote the clean riders.

    www.bikepure.org
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    mylesrants wrote:
    ONE EURO TOO MUCH

    dopers get the most media coverage.
    we need to move on and forget the cheats.

    promote the clean riders.

    www.bikepure.org

    Jorg has done more to move the sport forward than most clean riders, wouldn't you say?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    mylesrants wrote:
    ONE EURO TOO MUCH

    dopers get the most media coverage.
    we need to move on and forget the cheats.

    promote the clean riders.
    Very laudible. But I don't know who the clean riders are. Nor do you. That's the reason the sport is so f**ked up.
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    koppenberg wrote:
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    It'll be interesting to see how that gets past EU minimum wage regulations.
    Cinelli are a continental team as such riders are not always pro ie paid

    He's employed by them, they're paying him, thus they're legally obliged to pay him the minimum wage. It's not the UCI's minimum wage for a Pro, it's the EU law's minimum wage.
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    koppenberg wrote:
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    It'll be interesting to see how that gets past EU minimum wage regulations.
    Cinelli are a continental team as such riders are not always pro ie paid

    He's employed by them, they're paying him, thus they're legally obliged to pay him the minimum wage. It's not the UCI's minimum wage for a Pro, it's the EU law's minimum wage.

    What's classed as "work"? He's a cyclist. Does he have to be paid for training? Paid just for racing or team appearances?

    I can't see how the EU minimum wage works anyway - I bet plenty of servicemen, especially during training phases, earn less than the minimum wage especially if it's calculated by the hour.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    There's no such thing as an EU minimum wage. Each member state has the power to set their own minimum wage. Cinelli-ODP is registered in Italy and Italy has no statutory minimum wage.

    Italian minimum wages are based on collective bargaining agreements between different sectors and their respective unions. And we all know how well organised and efficient the cycling union is...

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