Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2025 (La Vuelta Ciclista a España)

[ChandlerMne 1,214]

Spain should be SEVERELY punished by UCI. Their incompetence is monstrous.

[Gianlu33 6,037]

9 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Spain should be SEVERELY punished by UCI. Their incompetence is monstrous.

Or perhaps we should avoid allowing state teams sponsored by those who commit genocide to participate. Israel must be treated like Russia.

[ChandlerMne 1,214]

25 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Or perhaps we should avoid allowing state teams sponsored by those who commit genocide to participate. Israel must be treated like Russia.

Then 90% of all countries shouldnt be allowed to participate as they were killing and destroying others.

Protesting is OK but ruining every single event just to show your POV is just plainly insane.

What will be next? They will block Nobel Prize ceremonies, cultural events? 

This is dispicable behaviour.

[Orangehair43 317]

37 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Or perhaps we should avoid allowing state teams sponsored by those who commit genocide to participate. Israel must be treated like Russia.

A recondite that is very debatable. And was cussed by Hamas attacking Israel. 

[Orangehair43 317]

47 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Spain should be SEVERELY punished by UCI. Their incompetence is monstrous.

Spanish goverment wants these protests. Afterall it wishes to nuke Israel. 

Edited September 16, 2025 by Orangehair43

[Noorderling29 238]

27 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Spanish goverment wants these protests. Afterall it wishes to nuke Israel. 

Sure

[heywoodu 16,468]

1 hour ago, ChandlerMne said:

Spain should be SEVERELY punished by UCI. Their incompetence is monstrous.

UCI mostly. At least not allowing Israel in the name (and not allowing the truly horrible owner/boss of the team in the race) would have avoided most if not all of this.

 

The organizers are certainly to blame as well for not changing routes where protests were clearly going to happen. You can't always stop that, unless you have a North Korean police force.

[Grassmarket 4,311]

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

UCI mostly. At least not allowing Israel in the name (and not allowing the truly horrible owner/boss of the team in the race) would have avoided most if not all of this.

 

Well, that horse has well and truly bolted.  Once you allow Kazakhstan, UAE & Bahrain to have teams and Saudia Arabia to host a race then you have not much standing to forbid Israel. 

 

And don't get me started about Linda McCartney's Vegetarian Sausages!  

Edited September 16, 2025 by Grassmarket

[Orangehair43 317]

21 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

UCI mostly. At least not allowing Israel in the name (and not allowing the truly horrible owner/boss of the team in the race) would have avoided most if not all of this.

 

The organizers are certainly to blame as well for not changing routes where protests were clearly going to happen. You can't always stop that, unless you have a North Korean police force.

I doubt it. Any Israeli rider would bring mass protests in Spain. Even a non Israeli Jew wouldn’t be welcome by many, 

[heywoodu 16,468]

9 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

I doubt it. Any Israeli rider would bring mass protests in Spain. Even a non Israeli Jew wouldn’t be welcome by many, 

Nope, there would absolutely have been a lot fewer protests without "Israel" in the name (from the start) and genocidal nut Adams leading the team.

 

The problem will solve itself though, hardly any self-respecting rider is going to sign for them anymore.