Interesting article in this morning’s WSJ:
… Professional cycling could use a bailout. It lacks a central organizing body, like the National Football League or National Basketball Association. Individual races compete for sponsors and don’t have bargaining power in deals for broadcast rights; they don’t centrally negotiate. Union Cycliste Internationale, or UCI, in Aigle, Switzerland, is the governing body for the sport but it doesn’t control any races.
UCI and Amaury Sport Organisation, the arm of French media conglomerate Éditions Philippe Amaury which organizes the Tour, say they have feuded for years over issues from sponsorship to race calendars…