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Teams and riders should get real regarding team budgets. A €50m (or €1m for that matter) budget is not a "sponsorship", it is marketing, plain and simple. Presenting the marketing value to companies, rather than a sponsorship proposal, could in and of itself see teams taken more seriously while eliminating the fragility factor. Companies own teams to market their brands in other professional sports. On the other hand, little league teams get sponsorship to pay for their uniforms and equipment. Why are professional cycling teams still using the little league approach to funding their teams? Then, Mr van Aert seems, in some measure, to lack cognizance of the privilege of race organizers paying to have roads closed so he can race on them in the course of earning his salary. It may seem like a small thing to have a paid VIP section, but adding this would only be the first in a series of such measures at the top of a slippery slope.02-12-2025 09:58
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Go greed! There are numerous ways to improve the sport's profits (and team budgets) that do not include charging admission for people to stand on the road they likely in part paid for. Eschewing these in favor of stripping people's rights for the purpose of funding race budgets cannot be much else than laziness or greed.09-11-2025 14:38
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Always enjoy Rowe's dialog. Dopers suck, but bullies suck too. There's probably a better way.31-10-2025 09:40
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Article from the dept of who cares? It's entertainment. These guys are both fun to watch.23-10-2025 03:50
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Vincenzo Nibali regarded Horner as not only one of the best climbers in the peloton, but as a worthy competitor who produced a superior performance in that Vuelta.21-10-2025 09:09
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This appears to be a double-decker generalization about Americans and certainly not an accurate one.22-09-2025 05:33
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This is perhaps the most cleverly-worded headline this site has ever keyed.13-08-2025 05:32
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Counterpoint: At age 19, I was 5'10" and 112 lbs, racing. Ms. Vollering is addressing young people. Her words here do not sound anything like a complaint. Rather, they are clearly about health and self-empowerment through health. I am even more of a fan now.08-08-2025 18:18
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It's like Max Headroom wrote this article.04-08-2025 01:48
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Indeed, and what is perhaps even worse is the writing of the articles, which feature an ever-increasing number of typos and word omissions. One wonders if the original articles on other sites are just as poor.24-07-2025 07:13