tymon_tm wrote:Dez33 wrote:maquisard wrote:Indeed, and Giant-Alpecin rode this years Tour in predominantly white kit instead of black. The Cervelo Test Team used to do the same. Same situation as Sky and perfectly legal.
Different situation to US Postal changing to victory kit on Champs-Elysees. That wasn't cleared with the UCI so they were fined. Same with Cipo and his outfits!
The most disgraceful example though was 2010, Armstrong again but he wasn't even the winner (well, never a winner anyway) made the whole team change into a Livestrong special edition '28 million' jersey. Then the race virtually had to stop and wait while they were made to change back into the correct jerseys.
I'm sorry but how is promoting charity that promotes cancer awareness disgraceful? IMHO it was the coolest thing, ditching sponsors' logos for something actually relevant
You might have thought it was cool
if you were a Pharmstrong fan boy but 'Lance the cheat' and his 'charity' deployed as a shield against his doping meant the two were inseparable then. For years he used that charity to beat down accusations of his doping, like if you were against Armstrong you were pro people dying of cancer in his opinion.
Then to the charity itself, like we really needed a charity blowing most of its donations on promotional activities to make us aware of cancer? No thanks, I have two dead relatives that make me acutely aware of cancer. I prefer to put my money into more meaningful organisations.
Then you get to the fact that once again it was a big circle jerk all around Lance, he wasn’t even the f’ing winner. If anyone was going to make a statement about something within the rules that should be afforded to the winners team, not hijacked by a pretender against the rules.
And the sponsors logos weren’t ditched, they were on the jersey as well.
UCI did the right thing stopping the race to take them off.