Cycling4all.com meldet, daß das Team Saeco-Longoni seine Mitgliedschaft in der Vereinigung der Profi-Teams beendet.
"It's a failure and is controlled by the race organisers"
In a letter to president Manolo Saiz, the manager of the Saeco-Longoni Sport team Claudio Corti
has officially communicated and in an irreversible manner, the decision of the team to leave the
AIGCP (Associazione Internazionale Gruppi Sportivi Professionistici, the International Association
of Professional Cycling teams).
"I believe that the AIGCP has betrayed the very reason why it was established," Corti said.
Our ideals, if there were ever any, and the internal running of the association, were inspired by a
vague concept of democracy. We do not have any political power or any function regarding the future
prospects in which our sport can find serenity and a better chance of development."
Corti also criticised the confused behaviour of the association regarding the case involving Gilberto Simoni at the Giro d'Italia and the consequent exclusion of the Saeco-Longoni Sport team from the Tour de France.
Corti also touched on the position of the teams regarding the organisers of the Championship of Zurich:
"I find the decision of the association to boycott the race absurd for an economical problem which isn't
fundamentally important. Saeco-Longoni Sport will ride the race. If the AIGCP agrees or not with our decision is not very important because from today we are no longer members."
Dieser Beitrag wurde 1 mal editiert, zum letzten Mal von zilpzalp: 02.08.2002 13:52.