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  • Hah I just hate the guy for no reason, maybe it’s the small bike!
    Lot of chat on the weekly news email I get about this idea of ‘free labour’ whilst someone else makes profit eg college football, Olympics, does apply to cx where they charge entry and must make ££ on retail, though doesn’t massively stack up in road cycling.
    Surprising that the uci approached a reasonable idea eg ‘how do we get max good riders at World Cup rounds’ and came up with such a weird sideways way to approach it

  • Cx race organisers in Belgium pay start money to the big names in order to attract as many paying spectators as possible. MVDP is rumoured to be paid €25k per race, so I don’t think the free labour argument stacks up.

  • Yeah Labour probably a poor use of phrasing.

    I mostly dislike the highest body throwing their weight around like this, very icky.

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