WHY CAN'T THEY ALL JUST GET ALONG?

This author feels that the pissing match between the UCI and certain race organizers needs to come to an end and that the rider's union needs to grow a set or else cycling is going to continue to be in a state of turmoil that will scare even the most cycling friendly sponsors away.

The UCI decides now is the time to play hardball with race organizers and threatens the riders who opt to participate in next week's Paris-Nice? The lesson in all this? Once again, it is the riders who are getting screwed. Where was the UCI when Unibet was getting the shaft last year? Their lack of action kept a registered Pro-Tour Team, Unibet, out of most of the Pro-Tour races last year and emboldened race organizers who have now taken that inch given and gone way more than a mile.

The riders/ teams also have themselves to blame in all of this as it seems their union is one in name only since it did nothing to come to the assistance of Unibet last year or Astana this year. Granted, the riders/ teams have to act in the best interests of their sponsors but at some point they need to take a stand and say enough is enough!

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