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EU BS and a Peloton at Two Speeds?

Posted on 11 March 2007 by cosmo

I completely don’t understand the European Union. It’s like some bizarre club, founded by a group of people who hate each other, and designed with the intention of allowing each member to screw over every other member at every opportunity. This whole Unitbet thing, which come the Giro, could extend itself to FdJ and Lotto, is really an extension of that. See, America is better, because although it contains 50 members, they divide themselves into two simple groups and just take turns wailing on other, every four years or so.

Yeah, but now racing. Paris-Nice prologue; won by David Millar over a not exactly star-studded Top 10. And just a day after the UCI unveiled its new blood profiling program. Millar, in case you forgot, confessed to EPO use in 2004, but is apparently now clean. His winning kinda puts a hole in that “peloton at two speeds thing” that the UCI aims to correct, doesn’t it? In fact, come to think of it, a lot of riders from the “lower speed” peloton have been doing well lately – Jimmy Casper for example. Yeah, if it weren’t for superstars like Alejandro Valverde and Danilo DiLuca winning races all the time, people might think this sport is clean…

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a headshot of Cosmo Catalano

Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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