Paris-Nice
February 23rd, 2007 |Six professional teams say they will defy the International Cycling Union (UCI) and compete in next month’s Paris-Nice race even though it has been dropped from the Pro-Tour calendar.
Rabobank, the team of former world champions Oscar Freire, Gerolsteiner, T-Mobile and France’s Cofidis, Bouygues Telecom and Francaise des Jeux have said they will be at the start of the week-long race at Issy-les-Moulineaux in the Paris suburbs on March 11.
The UCI had written to all 20 teams on its Pro-Tour after a dispute with the organisers of the Paris-Nice, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), telling them that it no longer recognised the race and ordering them not to enter.
The UCI continues to serve as the greatest destructive force for cycling in the world.
