Smack down on Stazio

Yeah, we hit this at the end of the "Who Sanctioned This?" thread
yesterday, but it's been all over Teton's and CCs sites for a few days.
Comment, esp. at Teton's focused a lot on the fact that it's not so
hard to characterize the whole shebang as ruse to get TH racing.

So I wrote in, and in reply:

"This issue has since been resolved and should not affect our tradition
of cooperating with charity events.
Thanks for your note.
Sincerely,
Gerard Bisceglia
CEO USA Cycling"

He (or his assistant) was very prompt with a reply to me, which is
nice. I wonder what the above MEANS tho?

Ambiguity is an excellent way of avoiding accountability. I think
Gerard/USAC are just trying to lay low on this one.

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Quoted post said:

Ambiguity is an excellent way of avoiding accountability. I think
Gerard/USAC are just trying to lay low on this one.

Since USAC is caught in the middle of this of course they are trying to
lay low. Let's see a group of people come up with a way to let Tyler
race even though is is under suspension. Not satisfied with just
having Tyler race someone puts a full race report with results on
CyclingNews, an internationally read web site. Naturally someone from
UCI reads the race report and looks at the results. Since the fact that
Tyler is racing is practically rubbed into the face of the UCI in this
manner of course UCI has to respond somehow. since USAC is the UCI
affiliated governing body UCI tells USAC to remind all UCI licensed
riders that they better stay away from The unscanctioned races or else
face suspension. USAC isn't the instigator in this case they are the
UCI messengers in this case.

I guess who ever posted the race report and results on CyclingNews
didn't know about the UCI rule about riding in non-sanctioned events.
If they did know about this UCI rule then it was pretty stupid to post
the race report and results on CyclingNews. If you are in a bull
fighting ring and you don't want the bull to charge you you don't go
around waving the red cloth in front of the Bull's face.

If given the choice USAC would probably do their best to ignore the
whole series in question. The problem is someone involved did a really
go job of catching the attention of the UCI and the UCI couldn't just
sit back and ignore the situation.

Well yah! Tyler's pic was on the home page of Cyclingnews. Can't
think of a better way to grab that attention. I guess they couldn't
resist the PR.
CH