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- Good insight. I just hope Sexy stays where he is .Its great to hear that more riders could be leaving UAE. Hopefully their buying success is ending. Having one team win everything is boring . I wouldnt be calling Lidl-Trek a super team mens or womens...look at this years results.
- Big difference between asking teams and asking certain fans (of teams) for whom apparently he would never be good enough.
- Most of that property is owned by foreigners and hardly affects locals.
As for the economy, not quite sure you’ve taken the whole picture, booming oil revenues are compensating for a lot. It’s more a redistribution of wealth.
Whether they feel less motivated to spend on Western gimmicks than defense now may be a valid question.
- You’re assuming everyone in the peleton has the same objective. A breakaway almost always does, in the peleton you often get riders moving up in front to break the momentum and it works extremely well as many potential helpers lose motivation then and many obliged helpers get boxed in and waste a lot of effort reaccelerating to the front.
- That was anything but a "perfectly organized peloton".
- the uno-x rider was waving because he had a teammate upfront ...
- I wonde what would happen if he meets Tibor del Grosso. Or Thibau Nys for that matter
- I'd like to see him go to Lidl-Trek - they have a good punchy side and he'd be a great addition. With Juan Ayuso, Carlos Verona and Héctor Álvarez, it'd be a good Spanish block
- I can see them becoming Slovenian
- But, as their economies are basically shut down, and these cycling teams are more or less vanity projects, they might very well be the first things cut.
For instance, I've been hearing property prices in Dubai have been falling. IDK what will happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if these teams got sold or shutter next time their sponsorship contracts are up.
-An Economist
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