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Is GCP The Smoking Gun of Corruption?

The UCI Management Committee created Global Cycling Promotion (GCP) in September 2009 in order to support its globalisation strategy for road cycling. This represents another step forward in the ...
On September 29, 2011 / By admin
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The Rise of the Amaurys (Part 2 in a series)

In part two of our ongoing series addressing some of the key issues in the revenue-sharing debate, we consider the next phase in the history of one of ...
On September 29, 2011 / By fmk
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An introduction and an Italian odyssey, by our very own Cyclist at Large

Some of you may recall a cycling community called Flammecast. Notable alumni include my compatriot, the UCI Overlord. Less notable alumni include me, blogging under the not so ...
On September 28, 2011 / By admin
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The Man Who Sold the Tour (Part 1 in a series)

In the first part of a series of articles addressing some of the key issues in the revenue sharing debate we consider the early history of the Tour ...
On September 28, 2011 / By fmk
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Did we gender “neutralize” the Women’s Road Race?

The 2011 season has been thick with cries for equal prize payouts, race coverage and the expansion of women’s trade teams. With that fresh in the mind of ...
On September 27, 2011 / By admin
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The Overlord’s Dispatches from the Throne Volume 28

We are winning the war. The war against dopers. This victory has been a monumental achievement in my reign as the supreme Overlord of all that is cycling. ...
On September 26, 2011 / By admin
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Diet and Diabetes – A pro cyclist’s balancing act

As cyclists, we have a pretty unhealthy relationship with diet and weight, and sometimes it can definitely be a little too all-consuming. I’ve been down that path before. ...
On September 22, 2011 / By admin
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The Overlord’s Dispatches from the Throne Volume 27

Having to deal with Gianni Bugno face-to-face in two meetings within the space of a week is enough to drive me to throw my Guinness pint through the ...
On September 19, 2011 / By admin
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The influence of snark and parody

The Internet is an amazing creation. In a scant few decades, the world has come to rely upon, and in fact expect, its never-ending flow of information, and ...
On September 12, 2011 / By Lesli Cohen
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The Overlord’s Dispatches from the Throne Volume 26

This week’s episode marks six months of writing as the character known as the @UCI_Overlord on twitter. What started as a parody of Pat McQuaid, the current head ...
On September 11, 2011 / By admin

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