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05-03.-2008, 08:08 PM	#46
whiteboytrash Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 5,008	Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice http://assets.rug.be/img_art/site/i...EA31F72280A.pdf

06-03.-2008, 01:02 AM	#47
Powerful Pete Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Rome, Italy Posts: 3,732	Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice That letter is astonishing. I say that the UCI threat will be ignored. No team/rider will risk exclusion from ASO and RCS races to side with Pat. __________________ De Rosa Planet Campagnolo Per Sempre! PAOLO BETTINI CAMPIONE DEL MONDO x 2!

06-03.-2008, 01:34 AM	#48
poulidor Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,029	Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice McQuaid is making a smokescreen nad his transferring his dream on ASO. He should know that a race on road needs an agreement of authority. ASO as organiser is dependant of french governemnt for french race and of Belgian for FL or LBL... So an organiser could never have a real power, their business should stay in agreement with the governements. The only threat on UCI is UCI themeself who can tired the governemnt... Even the french communist leader Buffet has taken a strong position against UCI remembering the UCI's lack of will to protect riders' health. Miss Buffet was minister of sport from 97 to 2002, and launched the doping fight after Festina.

06-03.-2008, 03:50 AM

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McQuaid defeated?
http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme/20080305_170415Dev.html

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The end of the conflict has not yet been interviewed, but the UCI did on Wednesday night, a step toward easing its position in the conflict between ASO. If the question of Paris-Nice has not been resolved, the International Cycling Union has said however prepared to revise the rule of automatic participation in the ProTour teams in the Tour de France. But this was one of two crucial, raised Tuesday by ASO to explain the conflict. The other was, of course, the status of Paris-Nice.

This openness initiated by the UCI occurred while the president of the Economic Interest Grouping teams (CPI), Patrick Lefevere, appealed to both sides and suggested a middle ground. In its response to the appeal sent Wednesday, Pat McQuaid (Photo Archive L'Equipe) wrote: "Let me remind you that this rule was introduced in September 2007 at the request of the AIGCP (International Association of teams). The UCI has adopted this rule is justified and which protects the legitimate interests of the teams in question and their sponsors. If now the teams themselves would waive their right of participation in the Tour de France or whether they would be able to refuse an invitation to the Tour (...), they must make it clear to the UCI. "

Pat McQuaid concludes his letter: "If the settlement is upheld (...) and if the AIGCP sent to the UCI teams a request to revise the rule in question, the UCI is prepared to carry out such an revision on the basis of proposals made to him. "

06-03.-2008, 03:54 AM

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Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice

Gilbert will be on Paris-Nice with Casar.

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La formation Française des Jeux qui courra Paris-Nice du 9 au 16 mars, sera emmenée par le récent vainqueur du Het Volk, Philippe Gilbert. Le Belge sera épaulé par Sandy Casar et Rémy Di Gregorio. Le directeur sportif de l'équipe, Marc Madiot, a indiqué qu'il visait surtout une victoire d'étape. «Le classement général ? on fera le bilan au soir de l'étape du Ventoux, a-t-il dit mercredi. Casar ? il n'a pas beaucoup couru mais il est plutôt bien, mieux que ce qu'il pense lui-même».

L'équipe Française des Jeux à Paris-Nice:
Sandy Casar (FRA), Mickaël Cherel (FRA), Rémy Di Grégorio (FRA), Philippe Gilbert (BEL), Lilian Jégou (FRA), Yoann Le Boulanger (FRA), Jelle Vanendert (BEL), Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA). ( AFP)

06-03.-2008, 06:34 AM

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I thought the UCI had independent labs doing it as well?

Yes, but the labs don't know whose sample they are testing, right? If they come up with a positive, all they know is that they have a positive test. I thought they are not supposed to know who tested positive - hence it is easy to cover-up a result if needed as only UCI knows whose sample tested positive. Of course, that doesn't explain how the French lab leaks results.

06-03.-2008, 02:57 PM

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Gilbert will be on Paris-Nice with Casar.

Madiot: I do not want Gilbert suspended

The threats of the UCI to sanction any rider, who takes part in Paris-Nice, may have claimed their first casualty according to Sport Wereld.

Marc Madiot, sports director of French squad La Française des Jeux has expressed concern about sending his star rider and recent winner of Het Volk to the week long stage race in France. "I do not want my team leader suspended," he said. "If necessary we will start with eight French nationals in a race that is now part of the French calendar. Gilbert will ride Tirreno-Adriatico instead. I still have to talk with him about this."

06-03.-2008, 04:45 PM	#53
bannerrefugee Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Inside the perimeter Posts: 33	Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice Hi and howdy do-ody. I'm a union man You can call me Pat-ti. Any of you boys not paid up on your cards? You know I'm pleased to meet ya Been tryin all day to reach ya The union's here to help everyone of you cyi ki lin stars! cyi ki lin stars! cough cough You always know we care so much about the way they race ya. They say they got a lot of reasons every day.. cough cough Just to get a chance to meet you. To check and see no wrong been done That's one good reason I carry a gun edited Zappa if you care __________________ Semi Professional Advice (Free of Charge) Last edited by bannerrefugee : 06-03.-2008 at 05:12 PM.

08-03.-2008, 06:43 AM	#54
Bro Deal Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Resting by the Tumtum tree Posts: 6,222	Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice Racejunkie rates the players: http://racejunkie.blogspot.com/2008...s-nice-guy.html __________________ "You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

08-03.-2008, 07:07 AM

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Racejunkie rates the players:

http://racejunkie.blogspot.com/2008...s-nice-guy.html

That was brutal, but beautiful!

08-03.-2008, 01:19 PM	#56
Lucy 7 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 18	Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice My first thought was "accurate".

10-03.-2008, 04:25 AM	#57
TheDarkLord Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,833	Re: UCI wants teams to boycott Paris-Nice Just found this on CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/0...eref=rss_latest AMILLY, France (AP) -- Riders started the Paris-Nice race Sunday despite threats of sanctions from cycling's governing body. Thierry Hupond of the Skil-Shimano team was the first of 160 riders to start the 4.6-kilometer (2.9-mile) prologue around Amilly, about one hour from Paris. UCI president Pat McQuaid has urged riders to boycott the season's first major stage race, calling it "illegal" because the race owners -- the Amaury Sport Organization -- are holding it independently under French laws and outside UCI rules. McQuaid has threatened teams with six-month suspensions, fines of up to 10,000 Swiss francs ($9,700, euro6,380) and bans from the track world championships later this month, which would affect cyclists still to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. The race finishes in the southern city of Nice on March 16. <Full story in link posted above>

10-03.-2008, 04:37 AM

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Just found this on CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/0...eref=rss_latest

AMILLY, France (AP) -- Riders started the Paris-Nice race Sunday despite threats of sanctions from cycling's governing body.

Thierry Hupond of the Skil-Shimano team was the first of 160 riders to start the 4.6-kilometer (2.9-mile) prologue around Amilly, about one hour from Paris. UCI president Pat McQuaid has urged riders to boycott the season's first major stage race, calling it "illegal" because the race owners -- the Amaury Sport Organization -- are holding it independently under French laws and outside UCI rules.

McQuaid has threatened teams with six-month suspensions, fines of up to 10,000 Swiss francs ($9,700, euro6,380) and bans from the track world championships later this month, which would affect cyclists still to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.

The race finishes in the southern city of Nice on March 16.

<Full story in link posted above>

Thats old news...

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10-03.-2008, 04:46 AM

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Thats old news...

Sorry, I just saw it now.

10-03.-2008, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by TheDarkLord

Sorry, I just saw it now.

You can download the letter from McQuaid to the riders (where he threatens them with the ban and the fine) here:

http://www.cyclingheroes.info/id1315.html

Its at the bottom of the page (pdf file)

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