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Brian Kelly
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 653
Location: Gig Harbor, WA9/24/14 12:39 PM |
Discuss: Shortened Giro and Vuelta?
"It is also said that the UCI may seek to shrink the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España to less than three weeks"
http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/09/news/uci-ends-beijing-tour-sets-groundwork-major-changes_347001#xlVap5rhDAIuwmmP.99
I know the Tour has been viewed as bigger than the Giro and Vuelta, but to shorten them seems to be... well... it just seems wrong.
No reason for shortening those races were mentioned, so it's hard to understand why the UCI would feel it was necessary.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real9/24/14 1:23 PM |
They may shorten them due to coverage and opening up the calendar for other races elsewhere. The ToC and USPro Challenge have done well perhaps other countries want a piece of that.
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA9/24/14 3:53 PM |
UCI?
Does the UCI have any say in this? I thought the organizers were independent of the UCI and don't take their marching orders from it. ASO certainly is and the Giro and Vuelta organizations should be similarly independent.
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sanrensho
Joined: 20 Feb 2004
Posts: 835
Location: North Vancouver9/24/14 6:46 PM |
They should not shorten the Vuelta. By far, the most interesting of the GTs currently, with shorter stages and more climbing.
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