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The Week in Bike #47 - Who Pays?
December 6, 2014
Who’s going to be in the WorldTour next year? How should the WorldTour even work? Who’ll support this team? How about all these doping positives? Pretty much every question in cycling boils down, in terms of accountability or in terms of revenue, to “Who Pays?”, and the answer isn’t always so clear or simple. We […]
Rocacorba Daily
December 5, 2014
In this morning’s edition of the Rocacorba Daily news digest: IAM Cycling gets WorldTour licence, Astana and Europcar must wait for decision; Vincenzo Nibali, Rui Costa, Tom Boonen and Fabian Cancellara confirmed for Tour of Oman; Péraud almost quit cycling at 20 following doping accusations; Lance Armstrong at impasse with feds over evidence; GoPro tries […]
IAM Cycling confirmed as getting WorldTour licence, Astana and Europcar must wait for decision
December 5, 2014
The UCI has confirmed the identities of sixteen teams which will have WorldTour licences in 2015, stating that IAM Cycling has satisfied the requirements to move up from the Pro Continental level and that two current WT teams, Astana and Europcar, must await the outcome of an ongoing review by the Licence Commission. Astana has […]
MPCC suspends Neri Sottoli’s membership, comments on Astana’s cases
December 4, 2014
Following a number of positive tests involving the Neri Sottoli team, the MPCC anti-doping movement has announced that the squad’s membership has been suspended until at least next October. “At the last MPCC general meeting, all of the team members have required further explanations from Neri Sottoli’s manager Angelo Citracca in order to confirm, or […]
Rocacorba Daily
December 1, 2014
In this morning’s edition of the Rocacorba Daily news digest: MPCC - Unfair to consider Astana WorldTour and Continental teams as same entity; Roman Kreuziger releases biological passport data; Andy Schleck receives 2010 Tour de France trophy; Roads to ride - the Col du Béal; Mayor Boris Johnson to consider car-free Sundays for London; GoPro […]
The Week in Bike #46 - Let’s Play Pro Cyclist!
November 29, 2014
What better way to celebrate the busiest travel holiday in the US (Thanksgiving) than by sampling a bit of the professional cyclist lifestyle? Mercifully, the hotels and lack of leg room are short-term concerns, but both fans and riders seem likely to be under the thumb of cycling’s powers that be for quite a while to come. We […]