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Date: 09 Dec 2006 19:39:15
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Subject: Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group
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Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group (Professional Cycling Teams (IPCT) group) (http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html ) I am a little confused here, what authority does the IPCT have....?? IPCT is kicking Discovery out, because Basso is involved Operation Puerto. Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is just another example of guilt by inuendo.
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Date: 10 Dec 2006 16:47:55
From: SLAVE of THE STATE
Subject: Re: Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group
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Davey Crockett wrote: > Politicians can make a mess of truly Gargantuan proportions out of the > simplest situation Please don't criticize the leaders.
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Date: 10 Dec 2006 10:45:22
From: Dan Gregory
Subject: Re: Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group
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hizark21@yahoo.com wrote: Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is > just another example of guilt by inuendo. > Except cycling teams don't seem prepared to threaten him with hitmen like the footy clubs are alleged to have done (by Fuentes).
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Date: 10 Dec 2006 09:31:14
From: Davey Crockett
Subject: Re: Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group
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hizark21@yahoo.com writes: > Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group (Professional > Cycling Teams (IPCT) group) > (http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html ) > > I am a little confused here, what authority does the IPCT have....?? > IPCT is kicking Discovery out, because Basso is involved Operation > Puerto. Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is > just another example of guilt by inuendo. > The IPCT is the TRADES UNION for teams which are allowed travel with Paddy McBoggy's UCI sponsored Pro-Tour Circus The maximum number of members is Twenty since there are only twenty places for teams on the Pro Tour That is it in a nutshell, and IPCT is a business oriented Trades Union under the Chairmanship of Patrick Lefévère, a Belgian national who is manager of the Quick-Step professional Cycling team. They represent a Special Interest droup. If you are confused, leave it at what Davey outlined above and you will not go too far wrong. However, if you want to dig yourself into a Cesspool almost of European Common Market Magnitude, there are probably only 16 members of IPCT since Française des Jeux is not a member and now neither is Discovery Channel - Pause here - That would make 20 minus two members, or 18 current members. But there are two vacant places on the UCI Pro Tour roster, so deduct two more from the 18 and you have the 16 figure above. That is probably correct at the present time, but the situation is fluid. The idea is too keep people in the Dark as much as possible. Mystic, almost like a religion which feeds, as religions do, on ignorance, fear and superstition, with Paddy McBoggy as Pope The vacant places will be filled soon. Some cynics believe that several teams are worthy of inclusion in the Pro Tour and that those selected will be the ones who contribute the most, in cash, mind you, no cheques/checks/Czechs allowed, to Paddy McBoggy's retirement fund, with a little extra for current out of pocket expenditures on things like booze and whores. -- Le vent à Dos Davey Crockett [No 4Q to reply] X-Shakespeare: "I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament." -- Julius Caesar, III.1
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Date: 10 Dec 2006 11:48:20
From: RonSonic
Subject: Re: Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group
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On 10 Dec 2006 09:31:14 +0100, Davey Crockett <daveycrockett4Q@azurservers.com > wrote: >hizark21@yahoo.com writes: > >> Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group (Professional >> Cycling Teams (IPCT) group) >> (http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html ) >> >> I am a little confused here, what authority does the IPCT have....?? >> IPCT is kicking Discovery out, because Basso is involved Operation >> Puerto. Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is >> just another example of guilt by inuendo. >> > >The IPCT is the TRADES UNION for teams which are >allowed travel with Paddy McBoggy's UCI sponsored Pro-Tour Circus > >The maximum number of members is Twenty since there are only >twenty places for teams on the Pro Tour > >That is it in a nutshell, and IPCT is a business oriented Trades Union >under the Chairmanship of Patrick Lefévère, a Belgian national who is >manager of the Quick-Step professional Cycling team. > >They represent a Special Interest droup. > >If you are confused, leave it at what Davey outlined above and you > will not go too far wrong. So Davey, is it a _good_ thing that an industry association has blackballed a worker in that trade on the basis of an accusation by some cop? Ron
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Date: 10 Dec 2006 19:32:02
From: Davey Crockett
Subject: Re: Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group
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RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr.com > writes: > On 10 Dec 2006 09:31:14 +0100, Davey Crockett <daveycrockett4Q@azurservers.com> > wrote: > > >hizark21@yahoo.com writes: > > > >> Discovery Channel excluded from ProTour team group (Professional > >> Cycling Teams (IPCT) group) > >> (http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/11301.0.html ) > >> > >> I am a little confused here, what authority does the IPCT have....?? > >> IPCT is kicking Discovery out, because Basso is involved Operation > >> Puerto. Personally I think the whole Operation Puerto investigation is > >> just another example of guilt by inuendo. > >> > > > >The IPCT is the TRADES UNION for teams which are > >allowed travel with Paddy McBoggy's UCI sponsored Pro-Tour Circus > > > >The maximum number of members is Twenty since there are only > >twenty places for teams on the Pro Tour > > > >That is it in a nutshell, and IPCT is a business oriented Trades Union > >under the Chairmanship of Patrick Lefévère, a Belgian national who is > >manager of the Quick-Step professional Cycling team. > > > >They represent a Special Interest droup. > > > >If you are confused, leave it at what Davey outlined above and you > > will not go too far wrong. > > So Davey, is it a _good_ thing that an industry association has blackballed a > worker in that trade on the basis of an accusation by some cop? > Davey was trying to state facts to help someone sort out the mess He wasn't offering an opinion one way or the other, Ron But if you want Davey's opinon, he thinks that the whole gamut of alphabet soup organizations should be disbanded as political and detrimental to the sport of cycling Politicians can make a mess of truly Gargantuan proportions out of the simplest situation -- Le vent à Dos Davey Crockett [No 4Q to reply] X-Shakespeare: "MacDuff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance." -- Macbeth, II.3
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