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It is a knee-jerk, poorly thought out response from Lappartient which reacts purely to a Tour de France where the viewing figures were down in a few countries, as well as media hysteria from all quarters.
None of the technology is going to go away, none, professional cycling is basically an advert for all the latest bikes and innovations, hence why disc brakes got pushed through despite the riders and mechanics not really wanting them.
And rather than budget caps the UCI should be looking at ways to get the smaller teams more money rather than try to restrict the spending of the top teams.
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But seriously, I vaguely remember David milllars last tour where they all went from the start of one stage and dropped everyone.
That was fun. More of that sort of thinking from teams would be interesting.
I'm not sure what the problem is?
Is it because sky are dominant?
Movistar had landa. If they meant it they should have ditched Quintana or dropped him down the order.
Nibali dropped out because of crowd trouble.
Doumoulin was quite special.
Even if you took each of the sky domestics and made them leaders in a team, it wouldn't necessarily make it more exciting would it?