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'Team Sky'

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    #92
    rushfan
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    CramCycle wrote:
    Are their any insanely rich Brexiters who aren't tax exiles or moving their business interests abroad?


    Team Rees Mogg anyone??


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    #93
    RobertFoster
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    rushfan wrote: »
    Team Rees Mogg anyone??
    Penny-farthings mandatory?


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    #94
    robyntmorton
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    rushfan wrote: »
    Team Rees Mogg anyone??

    We all know that with the Britain first policy of Team Rees Mogg, they will only ever participate in three races:
    The Giro d'England, because England is always top of the list.
    The Tour de Scotland, where riders compete for the coveted yellow haggis, and the ceremonial last stage to Edinburgh sees the winning team share a bottle of scotch before falling over.
    The Vuelta a Cymru, characterised by short punchy stages, mostly involving summit finishes of Snowdonia

    Northern Ireland will be mostly forgotten, sometimes being used for winter training.

    I figure they'll try and fail to get invited to other races, as they'll refuse to do a deal with UCI.


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    #95
    Eamonnator
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    The title of this thread will have to be changed on 1st May

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sky-to-become-team-ineos-from-may-1/


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    #96
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    I wonder what a team needs to do in order to stop getting ridiculously rich sponsors.....


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    #97
    CramCycle
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    For one years sponsorship he could keep the RAS going at full tilt for 100 years. Just to put it in perspective.


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    #98
    [Deleted User]
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    Interesting summary http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/a-brief-history-of-team-sky/

    Despite the obvious it reminded me of a few things combined with procycling stats was that likes Eddie Boss and Ben Swift did very well in terms of results at sky.


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    #99
    Junior
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    I wonder what a team needs to do in order to stop getting ridiculously rich sponsors.....

    Stop winning.


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    #100
    cjt156
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    Junior wrote: »
    Stop winning.

    But then what would we do with all these inhalers?


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    #101
    RobFowl
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    Junior wrote: »
    Stop winning.


    Dunno, didn't help Columbia/HTC and many others....


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    #102
    1bryan
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    RobFowl wrote: »
    I wonder what a team needs to do in order to stop getting ridiculously rich sponsors.....

    exactly, this has nothing to do with winning or not.

    I'd put a lot of the blame for this on social media. Riders with a ridiculously high social media profile (due to past results, or in some cases, not), and who become popular as a result, seem to get contracts and sponsorship deals even though there's little prospect of them ever doing well.

    having 100,000 instagram followers seems to count for more than a couple of wins, these days.

    though that's a problem with cycling in general, not Sky specifically. Sky as an entity are still massively popular in the UK. As long as that remains the case, they'll always attract fools who have more money than sense.


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    #103
    Weepsie
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    From the print version of the Guardian, albeit paraphrased. It's not online for me to copy and paste

    Ratcliffe grew up as a Manchester United fan, being from near the area. Later in life he switched allegiances to Chelsea, now a season ticket holder and has tried to buy them

    Terrible type of football then!


    Also, the Tour de Yorkshire goes by where he went to school. I wonder which of his new team will be sent there given it finishes only days before the Giro


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    #104
    [Deleted User]
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    Froome is currently listed for it, odd given Romandie is usually his gig that time of year.


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    #105
    Weepsie
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Froome is currently listed for it, odd given Romandie is usually his gig that time of year.

    It's been upgraded this year to a HC status and a chance to do some recon riding of the World Championship routes which are in the area this year


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    #106
    [Deleted User]
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    Oh of course, I'd forgotten the worlds were there this year.


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    #107
    neris
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    https://twitter.com/ukcyclingexpert/status/1108474344286638080?s=19


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    #108
    [Deleted User]
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    The irony was pointed out on cyclingnews earlier in that in the Tour last year they had their Ocean Rescue jerseys on.

    In kind of related news Direct Energie will be changing sponsor to Total, another fine company who are kind to the environment.


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    #109
    eeeee
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The irony was pointed out on cyclingnews earlier in that in the Tour last year they had their Ocean Rescue jerseys on.

    In kind of related news Direct Energie will be changing sponsor to Total, another fine company who are kind to the environment.

    Is cycling just becoming the least ditch dump for companies and governments no other sport or mainstream advertising system would support? Between blatant human rights abusers, apartheid regimes, tax exiles and environmentally disastrous companies it feels like cycling is the last space these reprehensible bodies can have marketing exposure.
    They really need to sort out a more stable and sustainable structure for the sport. I haven'tthe slightest clue gore to go about that, but jaysus it needs to be done yesterday.


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    #110
    [Deleted User]
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    It's an odd one, you wonder what some... many of the headline sponsors get from it. I might buy a Bora cooker or a quickstep floor but I'd not be in the market for what Dimension Data , Katusha, Gasprom, insert 20 more sponsors here sell.

    Though what they pay is chump change compared to what they earn , what google were fined today by the EU could fund the world tour for years and they'll barely miss it.


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    #111
    neris
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's an odd one, you wonder what some... many of the headline sponsors get from it. I might buy a Bora cooker or a quickstep floor but I'd not be in the market for what Dimension Data , Katusha, Gasprom, insert 20 more sponsors here sell.

    Though what they pay is chump change compared to what they earn , what google were fined today by the EU could fund the world tour for years and they'll barely miss it.

    Alot of its corporate entertainment for those companies. They can bring clients to races and really get them involved on race day. Team car, team bus, sitting with riders etc. And it's a lot cheaper then buying a football team or F1 team


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