Original post by Hasufel
last 3 years winners = Sky
main television rights coverage = Sky.
NO ONE EVER seems to challenge once Wiggins (got) Froome gets into the lead -
WTF is wrong with people? - aren`t these guys supposed to be highly competitive riders?
pussies!
main television rights coverage = Sky.
NO ONE EVER seems to challenge once Wiggins (got) Froome gets into the lead -
WTF is wrong with people? - aren`t these guys supposed to be highly competitive riders?
pussies!
I follow professional cycling religiously and I can tell straight away that you know absolutely nothing about cycling at all. First of all, Sky have only won twice in the last three years, not three times. And others certainly do try and challenge them, but Wiggins and Froome were just the strongest that year. There is no way that the race is a "fix."
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Original post by Hasufel
last 3 years winners = Sky
main television rights coverage = Sky.
NO ONE EVER seems to challenge once Wiggins (got) Froome gets into the lead -
WTF is wrong with people? - aren`t these guys supposed to be highly competitive riders?
pussies!
main television rights coverage = Sky.
NO ONE EVER seems to challenge once Wiggins (got) Froome gets into the lead -
WTF is wrong with people? - aren`t these guys supposed to be highly competitive riders?
pussies!
Please stop trolling!
For your information, Sky have won the TDF twice in the last three years since the Italian Vincenzo Nibali won it last year by some margin!
How do you believe the TDF can be fixed? There's 22 teams each with 9 riders. Do you honestly believe that 198 riders will agree to riding on terms with Team Sky? Cycling is a sport about glory- these riders bar the top GC contenders don't earn salaries in the same heights as other sports, so there's not really much incentive to be gained by other teams in fixing the race for Team Sky. Do you believe that Sky has the budget to pay all the other 21 teams for pursuit of cycling glory?
Furthermore, all cycling teams are backed by sponsors who fund the team with equipment and a annual budget. To accept defeat (i.e collaborating with Sky fixing TDF results) would mean that they would limit potential sponsors from pumping money in to the team since they wouldn't have the results to justify investing money in the team. The sponsors again would have to agree to the terms elicited by Sky- AGAIN another hard feat. There's too many stakeholders involved. Also if the fixing of results were leaked, it's pretty much accepted that the team would have to shut-down due to reputation as nobody would invest in the team.
Lastly, its nigh-on impossible to fix the TDF since each team would normally ride for 1 GC contender. That GC contender has worked hard all year to be fit and remain injury free- no matter how much money was thrown at them, they wouldn't accept since it's about winning the GC or a place high up on the overall standings. Money isn't enough in cycling to fix races-everything is about winning overall or just even stage wins. Even if Sky did elicit fixing, how would they decide who comes second or third overall in the TDF?
*GC- general classification/overall standings
*TDF- tour de france
As above. You'd have to have every single person working on the race to agree to make it a fix. Pretty sure you're trolling.
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Sky have the main tv rights in the UK only. That's some flimsy grounds to base a conspiracy on.
They've recruited the best team of riders and the best support staff. This is in part because they do (or at least did) spend more money than every other team. It is also partly down to being British, country which has seen a lot of resources put into building up cycling from a very low base about 20 years ago. That we now dominate both track and tour cycling is not a coincidence.
Original post by Quantex
They've recruited the best team of riders and the best support staff. This is in part because they do (or at least did) spend more money than every other team. It is also partly down to being British, country which has seen a lot of resources put into building up cycling from a very low base about 20 years ago. That we now dominate both track and tour cycling is not a coincidence.
We don't really dominate the track anymore. In fact we haven't dominated since the 2013 worlds.
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We don't really dominate the track anymore. In fact we haven't dominated since the 2013 worlds.
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Relatively dominant would have been a better way to put it. Compared to how bad British cycling use to be, the last decade has been exceptional.
but we still aren't doing badly at all:
http://www.uci.ch/track/ranking/
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Relatively dominant would have been a better way to put it. Compared to how bad British cycling use to be, the last decade has been exceptional.
but we still aren't doing badly at all:
http://www.uci.ch/track/ranking/
but we still aren't doing badly at all:
http://www.uci.ch/track/ranking/
That's just 2 male events, doesn't show anything.
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