RadioShack demands an invite to Giro di Lombardia.
@Wielerman (Renaat Schotte, cycling commentator for Sporza)'s twitter:
Latest news on 'Radioshake': "Team RadioShack asks CAS to arbitrate after the sudden non-invite to the Tour of Lombardy."
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“a href”-tag, with no link between the "". If that makes sense. At the moment it looks like this:
<a href="">http://twitter.com/wielerman/status/24087030779</a>
it should work if you change it to
<a href="http://twitter.com/wielerman/status/24087030779">@wielerman</a>
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 10, 2010 5:02 AM EDT up reply actions
AP report
RadioShack said in a statement it has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming Italian race organizer RCS Sport broke a contract by not including the American team in its Oct. 16 event.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
Still haven't found the press release
But there’s more info at Bikeradar:
In January 2010, an agreement was reached between Team RadioShack and RCS Sport regarding the participation of the US Team at the Giro di Lombardia (Tour of Lombardy) 2010.
“Totally surprised, Team RadioShack learned through the press, on September 6, that it was not included in the list of teams participating at the Italian event.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 10, 2010 5:13 AM EDT up reply actions
Nobody loves us...
Hate on Vacans all you want, at least they don’t sue you if you don’t invite them to your party.
I don't hate either team... and I can't work out why either have been left off the list..
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Why?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
So RCS has a responsibility to invite RadioShack to RCS events, but RadioShack doesn't have a responsibility to attend?
Jens below has a point. We don’t know any legal arrangements.
I personally feel that RadioShack can’t have it both ways. If they want the right to go all HIS events, they have the responsibility to go to all HIS events.
If they turn down invites because they didn’t want to go, they can’t now expect an automatic invite because, this time, they want to go.
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
Contrary to what perhaps HWMNBN and his fans, there are twenty seven(?) riders on the team...
Whilst some may appear to have sold their souls, there are plenty of eager young, capable riders who are being punished. The gloating about RS is tedious. i don’t give a shit about Lance one way or the other these days, but there are other cyclists there, like Horner and Brajkovic, whom I’d like to see strut their stuff at Lombardia..
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
I didn't say anything about Armstrong.
And I don’t know why RCS excluded RS from the Giro di Lombardia.
I just feel that you can’t turn down a Grand Tour invitation and still expect to be invited to the organizer’s other event that you do want to go to.
Imagine if a new ProTour team had a solid lineup of riders, and they skipped invites to the Tour of Qatar, Tour of Oman, Paris-Nice, and the Criterium International. Do you think they would have a right to be angry when the ASO declines to invite that team to the Tour de France?
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
The Giro is the Giro, Lombardia should be a new page.
Sorry about the Armstrong thing… two ways to read HIS..
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Fair enough
Agree to disagree. It all is a bit petty after all. I just have little sympathy for RadioShack. They made their choice, now live with it.
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
Pretty impossible for us to know if they have a case
We have no way of knowing if they had a deal with RCS to ride. Strange that it took them so long to complain though? One would have thought there would be a surprised outcry when it was announced?
Hey
lawyers take vacations too you know.
"Good thing I never said out loud that I was pulling for France, before this all started." -Mark Blacknell
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 10, 2010 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions
well
you can go …. whether they give two toots is another story.
Anyone who has every thought a working Photojournalist has a glam job needs to rethink...
by Christopher See on Sep 10, 2010 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Shacky going to cry?
"Until you shoot me off my bike I'll keep looking for a contract" - Jens!
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And they're all friends again. Except for the post office.
From VeloNation:
It was all a mistake: Team RadioShack to race Lombardy afterall
By John Wilcockson • Published: Sep 10th 2010 3:55 PM EDT
"All I know is that we’ll be riding the Tour of Lombardy." That was the one sentence Chris Horner spoke this morning just before starting the Grand Prix of Québec ProTour race, news even though the news coming out of Europe was that his RadioShack team had been barred from riding the season’s final classic and was appealing the exclusion to the Court of Arbitration for Sport
After investigating the news, VeloNews has learned that the team will indeed be on the stat line of the Lombardy race October 17. "There was an oversight by the organizers," an inside source told this VeloNews. "A letter confirming the invitation was lost apparently. And so they are working with the UCI to work things out so the team can start the race."
Horner has a fine record at the Tour of Lombardy, having placed 11th, 10th, seventh and 12th in the four times he has participated in the Italian race. Now he’ll have a chance to do even better.
Cool!
For me, it’s all about Horner getting a shot at a huge win or podium or whatever.
"Good thing I never said out loud that I was pulling for France, before this all started." -Mark Blacknell
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 10, 2010 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Not to mention VDS points
I’m a little skeptical about the “lost letter” explanation (surely an oversight like that would have been cleared up within a couple of hours), but… whatever it takes.
Cazzo, it's going to be a bloodbath! The Mortirolo is a horror, absolutely interminable. -- Michele Scarponi
Only a little skeptical?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
pretty skeptical
If this letter was from the organizers to RS, why weren’t they included in the 25 teams that were announced to the press? I don’t know who the inside source might be, but right now, the story only exists on that little blurb in Velonews. It’s not even on the Radio Shack website. If they’re going to knock someone else out of a spot, it’s a shame. Bruyneel got in trouble for badmouthing race organizers on twitter, and now the team makes news everywhere filing for some kind of express CAS decision granting compensation, and also says RCS fumbled paperwork and has the UCI involved?
Yeah
Though it would make a bit more sense if it was a letter from RS to the organizers that got lost.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Sep 11, 2010 4:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Wild speculation here...
Perhaps they thought they weren’t obligated to invite RS… then, after inviting 25 other teams, discovered that they WERE obligated. What can you do? Look for a team that’s willing to be disinvited (for a price, no doubt)? Go ahead and start 26 teams? Very awkward.
Cazzo, it's going to be a bloodbath! The Mortirolo is a horror, absolutely interminable. -- Michele Scarponi
RS was certainly peeved about the Vuelta snub
but didn’t complain to CAS. So I suspect they think they have a better argument in this case. The latest news suggests they may be right, and perhaps there was some prior agreement,. If in fact they don’t have an agreement, then they have no right to complain. I
This is great news. Hope Horner blitzes it.... well after at least one of my VDS guys.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
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