ASO says: Protour 2.0

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Apparently Patrice Clerc, ASO president, has said that ASO will start
a new pro cycling league, in direct competition with the UCI
Protour. This from a journalist from the Telegraaf in the late night
Tour Show on Dutch tv. According to the journalist, Clerc has spoken
to 11 teams already. Not to Rabobank however, because it was news for
Theo de Rooij, also present on the tv show.

Yippeee

They are finally doing what I've advocated all along

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watching my nation busily engaged in heaping its own funeral pyre. I
am filled with foreboding, for like the Roman I seem to see the River
Tiber foaming with much blood."
Enoch Powell

On Jul 24, 7:00 pm, Davey Crockett <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Apparently Patrice Clerc, ASO president, has said that ASO will start
a new pro cycling league, in direct competition with the UCI
Protour. This from a journalist from the Telegraaf in the late night
Tour Show on Dutch tv. According to the journalist, Clerc has spoken
to 11 teams already. Not to Rabobank however, because it was news for
Theo de Rooij, also present on the tv show.

Yippeee

They are finally doing what I've advocated all along

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Davey Crockett - No 4Q to Reply
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"To see and not speak out would be a great betrayal. It is as if
watching my nation busily engaged in heaping its own funeral pyre. I
am filled with foreboding, for like the Roman I seem to see the River
Tiber foaming with much blood."
Enoch Powell

I've gotta agree. A complete and total break may be the only solution
that has any chance of working. It may cripple the sport the way open
whell racing here in the States was, but the sport is being killed off
anyway. At least a new organization would provide some spark of hope.
Bill C

Bill C said:

Quoted message said:

Yippeee

They are finally doing what I've advocated all along

Quoted message said:

I've gotta agree. A complete and total break may be the only solution
that has any chance of working. It may cripple the sport the way open
whell racing here in the States was, but the sport is being killed off
anyway. At least a new organization would provide some spark of hope.
Bill C

Well the UCI has been off the rails for the last 5-6 years

They seem to be on a Power Trip

It had to come sooner or later

Surely McBoggy must have realized the fact that nobody really needs
the UCI and that apart from Insurance, the membership/license fees are
almost totally expended on Junkets and other Nonesense.

Additionally I have direct evidence of corruption in one particular
UCI affiliate, and I'm sure that it exists in at least several more
if it isn't in fact endemic.

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Davey Crockett - No 4Q to Reply

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Apparently Patrice Clerc, ASO president, has said that ASO will start a
new pro cycling league, in direct competition with the UCI Protour. This
from a journalist from the Telegraaf in the late night Tour Show on
Dutch tv. According to the journalist, Clerc has spoken to 11 teams
already. Not to Rabobank however, because it was news for Theo de Rooij,
also present on the tv show.

Hopefully they also tell the IOC to take the Olympics and stuff it up a
convenient orifice.