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 âŹ1m a year salary make that more palatable for you?
ETA heâs only ever âworkedâ as a cyclist, so unless heâs squirrelled away enough cash to never need to work again, heâll 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 donât 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 thereâs 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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Youâd really trust the UCI to run it?
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The WorldTour was kind of the UCIâs attempt to bring the races under their control.
Before that came in, a lot of the big teams didnât go to all of the big races. The French teams wouldnât race the Giro, for example
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Of course, it was Albania last year. And I think that was what got the teamâs 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 âŹ35k , not a lot different!
Halfway through the first stage and Iâm already sick of hearing the âTour de France Femmes avec Zwiftâ
Theyâve clearly been instructed they must use the full name at all times but Iâm starting to wonder if thereâs 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 didnât have this on my bingo card for the TdF Femmes:
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Does it work for MAMILs too?
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19yrs old 
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I was just coming to post about this. Absolutely devastating news.
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Womens Tour of Britain has all 5 stages live on youtube this week⌠plus highlights on ITV.
Personally found TDF Femmes somewhat more exciting than the mens.
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Me and Mrs FB are flag marshalling on Saturdayâs stage 4 of the tour which finishes in Y Gelli (Hay on Wye).
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Looking forward to this.
Fridayâs Stage 3 starts 10km from me so I intend jumping on the route, stopping & watching them around the 40km point & cycling back over Llyn Aled & Brenig.
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