Originally Posted by Paul01

This is about the European TV market and money.

1) There is a lot of cycling on TV in Europe throughout the season. For instance, today, Dutch TV broadcast a very minor league local race, the Nokere Koerse .

2) The point to a break away organization is to get enough money for the teams that they don't need to rely only on sponsorship. As it stands, the race organizers and the UCI divvie up the TV money and the teams want a chunk of that.

3) Forget doping. This has nothing to do with doping.

4) Forget the U.S. TV market. The money is in Europe.