Nissan pulls out of Radioshack

Richmond Racer
Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
edited December 2012 in Pro race
via @TourDeJose

doing a Rabo - honouring financial contracts to end-13 but want their name off everything

http://www.lequotidien.lu/les-sports/40677.html

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  • reverendmark
    reverendmark Posts: 67
    Good. I was always uneasy with their SUVs chugging around a bike race
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    reverendmark wrote:
    Good. I was always uneasy with their SUVs chugging around a bike race
    How can it be good when sponsors leave?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,691
    The catholic method?
    _
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    reverendmark wrote:
    Good. I was always uneasy with their SUVs chugging around a bike race

    Yes, because getting run over by an estate car doesn't hurt at all.
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    The catholic method?


    who got bummed?
    eating parmos since 1981

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  • mike6
    mike6 Posts: 1,199
    Dave_1 wrote:
    reverendmark wrote:
    Good. I was always uneasy with their SUVs chugging around a bike race
    How can it be good when sponsors leave?

    Its not, per say, but the Armstrong doping factor means they dont want to be associated with the team that is still associated with him.

    So if doping means a sponsor pulls the plug, team management might think twice about signing dopers or turning a blind eye.

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