Joe Cipale

And the Euros accuse the US of having funny ideas on morality...

Pot-kettle-black, no?

Joe

Erik Voldengen wrote:

> I believe Unibet was not invited because of a new French law prohibiting the
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> It's silly, though, because there are two other teams supported by their
> country's lottery. I guess Lotteries don't count as gambling.
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> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> Behalf Of Freyensee, James P
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:41 AM
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: [OBRA Chat] OT: Messy, messy UCI
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> I don't know if people have been following, but Pat McQuaid and the UCI is
> turning the whole racing world up-side down.
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> He has ordered all ProTour teams not to do Paris-Nice and dropped Paris-Nice
> from the ProTour calendar. This is a reaction from ASO (the organizers of
> Paris-Nice) turning down a request to include one of the ProTour teams,
> Ubinet. I don't know the reason why Ubinet was turned down, but I do know a
> big sticking point between all the Grand Tours and the UCI is that the Grand
> Tours want to be able to invite a few local teams within their country, that
> these teams get totally shut out of any great race opportunity within that
> country because of the current ProTour rules.
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> Since this order by McQuaid, 6 teams have defied the order and said will
> compete in Paris-Nice: Rabbobank, Gerolsteiner, and all the French ProTour
> teams. Now Pat McQuaid has told these teams if they compete in Paris-Nice,
> they will be heavily fined.
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> Meanwhile, the ASO has thrown a Mike-Tyson-reverse-uppercut to the UCI and
> the whole cycling world, with this current stance: "If the ProTour teams who
> originally accepted their invitation to Paris-Nice now turn it down, they
> will not be allowed to race in the Tour de France".
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> I have been a fan for cycling for years, but this type of stuff makes me
> really tune-out the sport.