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euan
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by euan

The ASO half owns if not more of the Vuelta

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lippythelion
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euan wrote:The ASO half owns if not more of the Vuelta

They must be gutted that a Spanish GT trumps their home race :beerchug:

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ave
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Have to agree, the Vuelta is great to watch!
Also, Plouay's field sprint was way better than the usual Tour sprint. I like sprints when I don't have an idea who will win.

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Has anyone seen coverage of the World Ports Classic? Supposedly got Mark Renshaw and Tom Veelers with onboard cameras broadcasting - I'd be interested to see some of that footage. http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15361/Peloton-viewpoint-as-cameras-on-bikes-permitted-for-World-Ports-Classic-which-starts-today.aspx

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djm
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by djm

Watched it on Eurosport but I didn't see any rider POI camera views.

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Innrg.com had some short footage days ago.

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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/f1-star ... -euskaltel

Nice one!


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by Routier

Beaten to it!

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by KB

Great news indeed. I'll be cheering for Alonso in F1.

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by trychle

Is this the future of the sport alongside bicycle manufacturers taking over teams?

I might be pessimistic, but I do no longer see why any company from outside the cycling industry would want to sponsor a professional cycling team (due to doping-issues, reliabilty problems..).
But then again, it might be better for professional cycling after all.
As I see it cycling fans can actually make sure that professional cycling is preserved in this tendency.

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by ultyguy

Banco Santander looks the obvious one to step in as the lead sponsor as they've had a long cooperation w/ Alonso in F1 and of course have their heart in the region (well Cantabria, but close).

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That was pretty amusing, in the break, Tomasz Marczynski just asked Ulissi for a drink from his bottle, which Ulissi obliged, 30 seconds later, he attacked and dropped him :D

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Sombrero to Horner!
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Gutsy ride from Roche as well.

So fun to watch a climbing stage when no one has a teammate and it's back to old school mano a mano a mano.

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trychle wrote:Is this the future of the sport alongside bicycle manufacturers taking over teams?

I might be pessimistic, but I do no longer see why any company from outside the cycling industry would want to sponsor a professional cycling team (due to doping-


The return on investment in terms of exposures is excellent if your team can get in the Tour de France, and still not bad if it does not.

Unless cycling as a whole crashes and burns, something it has held off doing despite dire predictions for at least 105 years, it remains a good investment. The question is whether the benefit of that exposure is undone by a doping story. I doubt it.

How many here would have ever even heard of Katusha had they not sponsored pro cycling?

Bike companies are taking a larger role because of the impressive growth of racing bike sales. Even if that abates, pro cycling remains a good marketing tool for whatever is hot at a given moment. They use pro cycling as a validation of their product, but the more common route of being a minority sponsor works fine for that. Not that bike companies sponsoring teams is new: Alcyon is an excellent example.

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