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And their habit of turning up once everything is done to erect one flag and take a fair share of the glory
I think you mean an unfair share of the glory.
But I'm afraid I didn't make the meaning of my post clear.
The lack of motivation I was referring to is caused by the fact that the traditional clubs that used to promote often don't have any youthful would be road men who need to get rides in other clubs' races. No, its not to do with the age of the workers - I remember Chas Messenger coming out to officiate at our road race when he couldn't have been a day under 90!
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Definitely unfair.
In the case of Scottish Cycling there’s also been a lack of investment in physical equipment for running races which is making life harder for organisers. Speaking to someone that organised a race recently, the boards for the top of the cars were unusable due to the magnets having either lost their covering (so would scratch the fuck out your car) or having become unattached from the rest of the board and the radios didn’t work either.
I understand there’s now a requirement for marshals for some races (or some marshals for all races?) to have attended training and gained ‘accreditation’.
I’m sure some of the extra admin and paperwork etc is an unavoidable symptom of compensation culture or whatever but I’m sure part of it is also about keeping people busy. Scottish Cycling used to be about 4 or 5 people working out of a portacabin at Meadowbank, they’ve now got in excess of 50 paid members of staff and they all need to be justify their salaries.
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I don’t think the people being old has much to do with their lack of motivation, I think that is more due to increase in paperwork and admin brought about by British (or Scottish) Cycling.
And their habit of turning up once everything is done to erect one flag and take a fair share of the glory.