Bad week for young Brits all round........
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Team Wiggins not selected for Tour of Yorkshire.
Adam Yates crashes in Tour of Catalunya - fractures pelvis.
Scott Thwaites has training crash - fractures spine.
Jeeze!!
Adam Yates crashes in Tour of Catalunya - fractures pelvis.
Scott Thwaites has training crash - fractures spine.
Jeeze!!
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Good news for young Brits as Yorkshire based Holdsworth Pro Racing team gets invite for Tour de Yorkshire
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inseine wrote:Good news for young Brits as Yorkshire based Holdsworth Pro Racing team gets invite for Tour de Yorkshire
And Manchester United dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, by grudgingly getting themselves a women's team.
(BBC to demand equal pay for them, next week)"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
inseine wrote:Good news for young Brits as Yorkshire based Holdsworth Pro Racing team gets invite for Tour de Yorkshire
exactly, I dont get the grief TdY have been getting on this, team Wiggo arent the only team who support young brits, and I suspect most of Wiggos team will be called into Team GB anyway, so who out of the conti teams would you replace to get Wiggo in0 -
Wiggins have been a shoe in the last couple of years and the only time you saw them in the racing has been moto shots of them exiting by the back door. They actually got selected ahead of Rapha Condor the first year until everyone made a big fuss about it I seem to recall0
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wouldn't it be better for the UCI to come up with a proper ranking \ league system for this.. would make it a lot fairer then0
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ShutupJens wrote:Wiggins have been a shoe in the last couple of years and the only time you saw them in the racing has been moto shots of them exiting by the back door. They actually got selected ahead of Rapha Condor the first year until everyone made a big fuss about it I seem to recall
Hang on, the first TdY was 2015, and they never got selected last year
So tell us more about the 'shoe in the last couple of years'0 -
Shutup Jens: Team Wiggo have raced 3 races so far this season:
Jock Wadley: 2nd
Classica da Arabida (1.2) - 2nd and 4th
Volta ao Alentejo (2.2) - 3rd overall, 2 stage wins, Best Young Rider
Just spit-balling here, but I suspect your beef is with their owner, rather than whether the lads deserve a spot0 -
Richmond Racer 2 wrote:Shutup Jens: Team Wiggo have raced 3 races so far this season:
Jock Wadley: 2nd
Classica da Arabida (1.2) - 2nd and 4th
Volta ao Alentejo (2.2) - 3rd overall, 2 stage wins, Best Young Rider
Just spit-balling here, but I suspect your beef is with their owner, rather than whether the lads deserve a spot
but part of me thinks the inverse is in effect too, no one would give a beef about it, if it wasnt for the team owner. and I still say if we accept there number of teams is limited, who out of the conti level teams would you swap out ?0 -
The problem with that it tends to create a closed shop. The teams that get invites have more opportunity to get points and are therefore more likely to get more invites.sherer wrote:wouldn't it be better for the UCI to come up with a proper ranking \ league system for this.. would make it a lot fairer then
I would like wildcards to local teams to be restricted a little. The Vuelta giving two of the wildcards to brand new Spanish teams seemed a little unfair. (I'd also reduce WT teams to 16 to allow more wildcards).Twitter: @RichN950 -
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tim000 wrote:no , and if they dont get invites to races we never will
Don't you think they should prove they are capable of racing at this level, before they get invited to the bigger races?
As someone posted up thread, the Wiggins team has had a strong start to the season in some decent quality races, they've shown they are capable of riding at this level. This Holdsworth-Planet-X team haven't done anything yet. If they have a good season then invite them next year, but don't invite untested teams as that smacks of cronyism.0 -
RichN95 wrote:
The problem with that it tends to create a closed shop. The teams that get invites have more opportunity to get points and are therefore more likely to get more invites.sherer wrote:wouldn't it be better for the UCI to come up with a proper ranking \ league system for this.. would make it a lot fairer then
I would like wildcards to local teams to be restricted a little. The Vuelta giving two of the wildcards to brand new Spanish teams seemed a little unfair. (I'd also reduce WT teams to 16 to allow more wildcards).
Good point, I hadnt really looked at it from that angle0
