CYCLING'S SPONSORSHIP CRISIS

Bjarne riis

Cycling is shrinking. Salaries will fall. Contracts will be harder to come by. The brave new world starts here.

As Jonathan Vaughters told Cycling Weekly following the news of CSC?s withdrawal: ?From 2009 and 2010, budgets are going to be smaller because riders? salaries are going to be much, much lower.

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LIVING ON BORROWED TIME

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Sports journalist Lionel Birnie has written professionally for Sunday Times, Procycling and of course Cycling Weekly. He is also an author, publisher, and co-founder of The Cycling Podcast. His first experience covering the Tour de France came in 1999, and he has presented The Cycling Podcast with Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe since 2013. He founded Peloton Publishing in 2010 and has ghostwritten and published the autobiography of Sean Kelly, as well as a number of other sports icons.