Rás 2019

DKmac

If only we had a couple of Human Rights violations in this country to Sportswash.

wpd

http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/dan-martin-ras-tailteann/

Very interesting comments by Dan here

would anyone know what the cost difference would be between uci 2.2 event and a local 7 day stage race with maybe
one foreign team??

I think some of the UK teams would still come, in the past if i remember correctly there was only one major foreign team
I remember the Russians and their slippy tubs and the Italians and a punch up in Dun Laoghaire?

Lewotsil

Agree with Dan but organisers (understandably) were reluctant to relinquish the spot in the UCI calendar.......I presume once its gone it would be a very arduous exercise to get it back?

I would guess the big savings between domestic v UCI event would be on the UCI related fees - principally event registration ?

Weepsie

I'd personally love to see a UCI 1 day race here. Ample places for great courses. Attach a sportive to it the previous day or after like in London and it could attract folk.

The London one is dull as hell but it's huge and attracts big names

ednwireland

Somehow doubt making it an amatuer race would make it cheaper. You still have to run it to the same standard with the same number of people, garda out riders etc.
So you're stuck with finding the same level of national sponsor. Someone like spar would be a good fit.

Macy0161

ednwireland wrote: »

Somehow doubt making it an amatuer race would make it cheaper. You still have to run it to the same standard with the same number of people, garda out riders etc.
So you're stuck with finding the same level of national sponsor. Someone like spar would be a good fit.

I'd guess the logic would be that it'd be easier to find sponsors, as it would have more national interest. RTE love faux amateur sports like the GAA, so may be more inclined to give coverage if it was local riders for county teams.

It'd also potentially increase interest in racing in general, giving people a more realistic aspiration of being "a man of the Rás".

1bryan

Macy0161 wrote: »

faux amatuer sports like the GAA.

LOLZ

531

Cycling is still a minority sport and sponsors, understandably, want exposure to as wide an audience as they can get. Whether GAA is 'faux amatuer' (sic) or not is of no relevance, it has a massive audience and gets great coverage in Ireland.

Junior

531 wrote: »

Cycling is still a minority sport and sponsors, understandably, want exposure to as wide an audience as they can get. Whether GAA is 'faux amatuer' (sic) or not is of no relevance, it has a massive audience and gets is given great coverage in Ireland.

Fixed that for you.

531

Junior wrote: »

Fixed that for you.

Sorry for my faux cleverness, i am not at my best in tbe mornings. 'Gets' or 'is given'.... I could argue that but as I started it, I will stand corrected.