Are UAE & Bahrain any better?
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I can see why Yates binned it. Living out of a suitcase in blah hotels working your bolox off for what, to not see your loved ones 8 months a year.
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start was in Bulgaria - we saw the 3rd stage rollout in Plovdiv
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Would a ā¬1m a year salary make that more palatable for you?
ETA heās only ever āworkedā as a cyclist, so unless heās squirrelled away enough cash to never need to work again, heāll probably reappear as a DS, driving a team car, on the same schedule as he was as a rider, but with less sleep and worse conditions
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Probably get much more than that from riding the post-Tour crits in the green jersey though
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Only they are just teams, not the whole sport. I donāt follow golf but the LIV tour seems to have ruined it , then collapsed.
F1 is bad enough with all the flat sandy identikit circuits.
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nothing to see here, please move along 
Although thereās a big difference from a private company and a federation (at least there should be)
UCI should run cycling not some family holding all the power to pick and choose who they want to compete based on how much arse kissing is done (or whatever else is involved)
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Youād really trust the UCI to run it?
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The WorldTour was kind of the UCIās attempt to bring the races under their control.
Before that came in, a lot of the big teams didnāt go to all of the big races. The French teams wouldnāt race the Giro, for example
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Of course, it was Albania last year. And I think that was what got the teamās backs up, two expensive non-Italian starts in a row
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More than a business maybe, but whoever it is more needs to be done to compensate teams with riders scraping a living. I see the other day a Step 6 football team paying players 400 a week. Step 6 is basically county leagues, world tour teams pay as little as ā¬35k , not a lot different!
Halfway through the first stage and Iām already sick of hearing the āTour de France Femmes avec Zwiftā
Theyāve clearly been instructed they must use the full name at all times but Iām starting to wonder if thereās also a requirement to say it x number of times per hour.
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Even better would be Greg Welch saying it.
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I didnāt have this on my bingo card for the TdF Femmes:
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Does it work for MAMILs too?
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