Key Takeaways: · Pogačar Dominant Yet Again … With a Little Help · Renewed Calls For a Team Salary Cap · The Masters Perfects the Concept of Scarcity Value · U.S. Racing Season Gets Underway · Boston Marathon Inspires Through Sport
“If we don’t limit the budgets, we will remain in a situation where giant teams can control everything.” The teams of Big Six (Jumbo-Visma, UAE, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Soudal-QuickStep)
Are Alpecin-Deceunik and Soudal-Quickstep among the big budget outfits? I am sure that MVDP is very well paid, but I can't there's too many among the rest of the team that are similarly paid. As for SQS, Lefevre is always going on about his budget limitations and every year seems to shed riders who do too well and, thus, would cost too much to retain. That doesn't sound like the behavior of a high funded outfit.
I wonder where Madiot's team rank in the spending stakes? He often makes the point that France's labor laws mean that his budget doesn't go as far as others based elsewhere. Well, that's not the fault of the teams based elsewhere, is it? Why should they be limited by labor laws in a particular country - one in which they are not registered or affiliated with?
“If we don’t limit the budgets, we will remain in a situation where giant teams can control everything.” The teams of Big Six (Jumbo-Visma, UAE, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Soudal-QuickStep)
Are Alpecin-Deceunik and Soudal-Quickstep among the big budget outfits? I am sure that MVDP is very well paid, but I can't there's too many among the rest of the team that are similarly paid. As for SQS, Lefevre is always going on about his budget limitations and every year seems to shed riders who do too well and, thus, would cost too much to retain. That doesn't sound like the behavior of a high funded outfit.
I wonder where Madiot's team rank in the spending stakes? He often makes the point that France's labor laws mean that his budget doesn't go as far as others based elsewhere. Well, that's not the fault of the teams based elsewhere, is it? Why should they be limited by labor laws in a particular country - one in which they are not registered or affiliated with?