Tour de France should wait for everybody

Ronde Champ

Hey,

If I was in the Tour (not that far fetched), and then got
dropped, I would get a good US lawyer. There should be a
rule that all riders are treated equally. Someone with more
fitness, or better luck should not be allowed to take away
my personal chances of winning. With the A.D.A. to protect
people with disabilities, any type of discrimination could
be contested in a civil lawsuit. So I don't care if the
fan's bag, cobbles, other riders, etc cause the crash. I
don't care if my knee's give out, or my legs and lungs
aren't strong enough. No one rider should be allowed to go
ahead of the others. We could actually draw straws in Paris
to determine the Tour de France champion. That would be
much more fair, especially to the 120lbs riders, and the
cyclists on teams with budgets under $2 Million.

Thanks, Ronde Champ

Amg

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:15:35 -0700, Ronde Champ wrote:

> Hey,
>
> If I was in the Tour (not that far fetched), and then got
> dropped, I would get a good US lawyer. There should be a
> rule that all riders are treated equally. Someone with
> more fitness, or better luck should not be allowed to
> take away my personal chances of winning. With the A.D.A.
> to protect people with disabilities, any type of
> discrimination could be contested in a civil lawsuit. So
> I don't care if the fan's bag, cobbles, other riders, etc
> cause the crash. I don't care if my knee's give out, or
> my legs and lungs aren't strong enough. No one rider
> should be allowed to go ahead of the others. We could
> actually draw straws in Paris to determine the Tour de
> France champion. That would be much more fair, especially
> to the 120lbs riders, and the cyclists on teams with
> budgets under $2 Million.
>
> Thanks, Ronde Champ

In fact, every team should have a legal department, ready to
sue at the slightest whiff of inequality: "My client
received 12% more rain than the stage winner, clearly
discriminatory. We demand a time adjustment!" "The pavés
were more slippery on our side of the road, unfairly
disadvantaging our client." The mfr. could be sued for
manufacturing all those flatting tires, "causing our client,
Phonak, irreparable harm." (The Tour is clearly fertile soil
for product liability claims.) Then there are the ambulance
chasers, followed by those ready to file malpractice suits.
It's a gold mine!

Sometimes Old Europe is a breath of fresh air, actually...

AMG

Tim Lines

AMG wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:15:35 -0700, Ronde Champ wrote:
>
>
>>Hey,
>>
>> If I was in the Tour (not that far fetched), and then got
>> dropped, I would get a good US lawyer. There should be a
>> rule that all riders are treated equally. Someone with
>> more fitness, or better luck should not be allowed to
>> take away my personal chances of winning. With the A.D.A.
>> to protect people with disabilities, any type of
>> discrimination could be contested in a civil lawsuit. So
>> I don't care if the fan's bag, cobbles, other riders, etc
>> cause the crash. I don't care if my knee's give out, or
>> my legs and lungs aren't strong enough. No one rider
>> should be allowed to go ahead of the others. We could
>> actually draw straws in Paris to determine the Tour de
>> France champion. That would be much more fair, especially
>> to the 120lbs riders, and the cyclists on teams with
>> budgets under $2 Million.
>>
>>Thanks, Ronde Champ
>
>
> In fact, every team should have a legal department, ready
> to sue at the slightest whiff of inequality: "My client
> received 12% more rain than the stage winner, clearly
> discriminatory. We demand a time adjustment!" "The pavés
> were more slippery on our side of the road, unfairly
> disadvantaging our client." The mfr. could be sued for
> manufacturing all those flatting tires, "causing our
> client, Phonak, irreparable harm." (The Tour is clearly
> fertile soil for product liability claims.) Then there are
> the ambulance chasers, followed by those ready to file
> malpractice suits. It's a gold mine!

This posting is clearly defective in that it advocates the
pusuit of frivolous law suits. Irreparable harm to
manufacturers and the legal system as a whole could result
from people taking this posting seriously. My lawyer is
filing a class action law suit on behalf of bicycle
equipment manufacturers and race organizers everywhere.

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