PROTOUR SPAT CONTINUES AT MILAN-SAN REMO

The UCI, major race organisers and the leading teams signed a peace deal just before Paris-Nice but the war over the future of the ProTour is far from over and resurfaced before the centennial edition of Milan-San Remo.

For the first time for two decades race organiser RCS organised a team presentation in the centre of Milan but half of the teams decided not to turn. The teams complained that riders needed to rest up and have a massage in the early afternoon instead of travelling to the centre of Milan but the protest was clearly a way of making RCS pay for their stance against the ProTour.

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