by Andrew G » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:34 pm
Sound's like you work for the UCI Mo
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[quote]following Qatar's example
Surely the most tedious race in the World, got to do better than that. Looking at the coverage it's just some big cities (brand new and well developed) where the stages start and finish, with miles of mind numbing, flat, featureless, roads through the desert in between. Nothing happens until the red kite.
Cycling is primarily a European sport and where it's foundations are. I've nothing against other parts of the World having races and spreading cycling worldwide, but they should wait until the races are there, the UCI wants to force people in to a country it wants to expand in to for a crappy race at the expense of far superior events.
The Classics and Monuments are known as that for a reason, for the UCI to try and elbow the Tour Down Under in on a similar footing is ridiculous.