Radioshack 2 Month Ban ?

ratsbeyfus
ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
edited September 2010 in Pro race
Suggestions that The Shack's season may be over 'coz of the shirt fiasco in the Tour:

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5715/RadioShacks-Jerseygate-stunt-at-Tour-de-France-could-see-riders-suspended-for-Worlds-and-Lombardy.aspx

... a bit harsh.

I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

@ratsbey

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  • BlackdownBuzzard
    BlackdownBuzzard Posts: 30
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    Suggestions that The Shack's season may be over 'coz of the shirt fiasco in the Tour:

    http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5715/RadioShacks-Jerseygate-stunt-at-Tour-de-France-could-see-riders-suspended-for-Worlds-and-Lombardy.aspx

    ... a bit harsh.

    Not really?

    If I acted like that to a commisar at a racing league series I wouldn't expect to be able to return for the rest of the year. I do find it a bit strange for them to be excluded from cycling in national squads for something they did in protour squads though.
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  • luckao
    luckao Posts: 632
    It's one thing to breach a rule they were already aware of. They look like a petulant child by then having gone and breached the rule once again, the second time in the knowledge of a verbal warning (even worse if they were warned the first time).

    The longer this season has gone on, the more thankful I am for their omission from the Vuelta.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Teams are allowed to register one alternative kit for the season.
    RS should have been aware of this.
    In the light of the UCI's Lombardy intervention, I would say there was no chance of the RS Tour team getting slapped with a suspension......................If this wasn't Pat McQuaid we were talking about. :oops:
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,813
    the impression I get is there is a gigantic black hole forming in the middle of RS and nobody wants to stand anywhere near it...
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  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
    I t does seem harsh but Bruyneel is such a cock he seems to rub everyone up the wrong way
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    dave milne wrote:
    I t does seem harsh but Bruyneel is such a fool he seems to rub everyone up the wrong way

    Bruyneel may be many things but a fool is not one of them.
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  • Arkibal
    Arkibal Posts: 850
    "Moray wrote:
    Bruyneel may be many things but a fool is not one of them.

    are you sure?
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    Arkibal wrote:
    "Moray wrote:
    Bruyneel may be many things but a fool is not one of them.

    are you sure?[/quote


    Of course i am sure why wouldnt i be , especially when i dont see any evidence to suggest he is a fool .
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  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Bruyneel may have misjudged things this time (we'll see if the UCI really have the balls to sanction him) but he is certainly not a fool. He's been playing the system very tidily for far too many years now to be anything other than a very slick operator.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    I'm not sure the original post actually said fool. The profanity fiter makes a more appropriate word come up as fool.
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    If they ban the whole team that is too harsh.

    It was a stunt, it either went right or wrong depending on your viewpoint, but let it go now UCI.
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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    prawny wrote:
    I'm not sure the original post actually said fool. The profanity fiter makes a more appropriate word come up as fool.


    Ok tell us what word you think it is it is space it our or star it or something.
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  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
    Moray Gub wrote:
    dave milne wrote:
    I t does seem harsh but Bruyneel is such a fool he seems to rub everyone up the wrong way

    Bruyneel may be many things but a fool is not one of them.

    I originally typed something ruder than fool
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    dave milne wrote:
    Moray Gub wrote:
    dave milne wrote:
    I t does seem harsh but Bruyneel is such a fool he seems to rub everyone up the wrong way

    Bruyneel may be many things but a fool is not one of them.

    I originally typed something ruder than fool

    Does it rhyme with Duck Mitt?

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    dave milne wrote:
    Moray Gub wrote:
    dave milne wrote:
    I t does seem harsh but Bruyneel is such a fool he seems to rub everyone up the wrong way

    Bruyneel may be many things but a fool is not one of them.

    I originally typed something ruder than fool

    Does it rhyme with Duck Mitt?

    it rhymes with sock and is another word for a male chicken
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    dave milne wrote:
    ratsbeyfus wrote:
    dave milne wrote:
    Moray Gub wrote:
    dave milne wrote:
    I t does seem harsh but Bruyneel is such a fool he seems to rub everyone up the wrong way

    Bruyneel may be many things but a fool is not one of them.

    I originally typed something ruder than fool

    Does it rhyme with Duck Mitt?

    it rhymes with sock and is another word for a male chicken

    Rasmussen doesn't rhyme with sock?! Oh, hang on... I geddit now! :D

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey

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