#101
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
MagillaGorilla wrote:
Carl Sundquist wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: Back in 1984, it was a foregone conclusion that amateur status meant you did not make any money from your sport. To do so was to risk being made ineligible for the Olympics. What other definition is there? Dumbass, Amateur status did not mean what you think it meant. Are you really under the impression that everyone got merchandise prizes? Not only did I occasionally make money from the sport without jeopardizing my amateur status, I also accelerated in velodrome turns. Now stop wetting the bed and move along. Bob Schwartz Even merchandise prizes would violate the Brundage (or the NCAA for that matter) interpretation of amateur. The IRS too. If you win a car, you'll have to pay taxes on the value of it, just like cash. Cycling, and other sports as well, have had amateurs receiving money related to competition for many years. Track and field athletes may not have had prize money, but they received start money at the various Grand Prix held in Europe each summer. There was an attempt to start up a pro track and field "league" in the '70's, but it didn't make it. Partially because track and field doesn't have the following in the US as it does in Europe, and partially because it really wasn't needed. Some US swimmers tried to form a pro swimming organization after the 1972 Olympics, but it didn't make it either (although I doubt it was because of any start/prize money type system existing elsewhere). Bottom line, like Kayle Leogrande, M-G has shown that he is willing to lie and move the goalposts in order to support his claims. I never moved the goal posts and I don't lie. Magilla So you never received a salary related to bike racing and never received any prize money, right? |
Ads |
#102
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
Carl Sundquist wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: Carl Sundquist wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: Carl Sundquist wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: Carl Sundquist wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: What does Carmichael in '96 have to do with Twigg in '84? http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...C0A9679482 60 Apple Lap. 1981. Nitz. $2500. What's that worth in today's money? Anywhere from $5k to $11k, depending in which relative value calculator you use. What place is that equivalent to on GC at the Tour? IIRC, it was a bit of a cluster, because they rode over a steel grate bridge which wasn't cool. I think Leslie Moore won the women's race. Jacqui Bradley (Jeff Bradley's sister) won the women's race at the Mohawk Classic. $15,000. 1981. ($34k to $66k in today's dollars) What's that worth in today's money on GC at the Tour (for the _men_)? In the realm of 5th place on GC. Total prize list $71 grand. And it wasn't split up between 14 different masters categories, either. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...C1A9679482 60 WTF is a Carney abortion? Keep talkin' Magilla Ahmadinejad, juuust keeeeeep on talking. Okay, so you split $10k between your 5 teammates and you got $2,000. The Mohawk Classic purse sounds better but how long did that race last with that kind of prize money. I would bet no longer than 1 or 2 years. $10k is $10k and splitting is splitting. It doesn't matter if it was 27 years ago in Jersey or a couple of months ago in Minnesota. It's irrelevant to the issue at hand. You're right about the lifespan of the race. I don't know, but what's the average lifespan of any big $ bike race in the US? How many years did the Triple Crown (Thrift Drug, West Virginia, CoreStates) that offered a $1M prize to the winer of all three last? The Super Duper Tour of America, like many others, can't even get beyond a webpage. You cherry picked the richest races in the season and then talked about what the winner would get. 95% of the women made the equivalent of what a Walmart cashier makes in a summer. Magilla ADHD Monkey, To refresh your memory, this is relevant to your viewpoint that amateurs did not receive money. So they competed in the all-amateur Olympics as frauds in violation of the IOC rules at the time that said athletes could make no money in their sports? Since Connie Carpenter Bee retired right after the 1984 Games, she technically had to retire with no earned income at all from cycling or she would have been ineligible to compete in the '84 Olympics. So are you saying Connie Carpenter made no money in cycling or that she was an Olympic fraud? Take your pick, O-CarlWan. Thanks, Magilla Do you consider yourself to have been an amateur fraud? No, because the chief never stomped my ass. Magilla You need to capitalize the C, or Gibby will sit on you. Gibby Fatton wishes he were Jackie Simes. A lot of people were jealous of that Rt. 28 book when it came out. The Blade and Indiana Granite think they made the gerbil wheel what it is today,. One day J-Me will drive a Catepillar onto the Air Products hamsterdrome and turn it into a public built-in swimming pool. Who's gonna stop him - the little Reinhart boy...Andy Lakatosh? Who? That convicted felon Chenowth? Then what will the Chief have to say? Art can call lap times for the butterfly over the PA system just as easily as a miss-and-out. Chauner's the only guy smart enough to put a roof over a gerbil wheel. Once the Blade moves up to Top Fuel, he'll get his own reality show and then you'll wish you stayed in the game and got some of the new cats. How come I don't see you on the Thursday ride at the Rodale chipmunk track? Even the girls come out to race that, Carl - you can keep up. You don't seem to remember when The Beard use to drop the Carney brothers in Norristown, do you? That 7-Eleven jersey Jonas use to show up in didn't matter. You can even see Alan "Ric Ocasek" Roginiski, who stopped taking steroids after finally finishing Corestates 1 lap down. Those days of being able to clean up on the Corestates KOM without finishing are long gone. Somebody is jealous of Shawn Wallace in here, and it's not the monkey. Magilla |
#103
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
MagillaGorilla wrote:
Carl Sundquist wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: So are you saying Connie Carpenter made no money in cycling or that she was an Olympic fraud? Take your pick, O-CarlWan. Amateur? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Dumbass. Bob Schwartz Dude, Lance Armstrong and Jonas Carney delayed turning pro until 1993 because they both didn't want to make themselves ineligible for the '92 Barcelona Games. What definition of amateur are you using? Back in 1984, it was a foregone conclusion that amateur status meant you did not make any money from your sport. To do so was to risk being made ineligible for the Olympics. What other definition is there? Magilla Says who? And what difference was there between pre'84 and post'84? Name one rider who was deeked from the Olympics for receiving money? A lot of athletes were threatened with a ban if they received any money....athletes like Steve Prefontaine. Magilla Goalpost mover, I asked you to name one rider and you you come up with Steve Prefontaine. Less than two minutes of research shows that while Prefontaine raised the issue of start money, his issue was _not_ with the IOC, but with the AAU (Amateur Athletics Union), the organization that more or less preceded the USOC as the US governing body to the IOC for many sports (cycling not among them). Why was Prefontaine raising the issue? Because his non-American competitors were free to accept start money, but the AAU would not let Americans do so and remain amateur. "The AAU became the subject of criticism, notably by outspoken track star Steve Prefontaine, over the living conditions for amateur athletes under the AAU, as well as arbitrary rules, such as a prohibition on women participating in running events. Congress adopted the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 in response to such criticisms, effectively removing the organization from any governance role." The circumstances of Prefontaine and track and field athletes had no bearing on riders. |
#104
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
Carl Sundquist wrote:
MagillaGorilla wrote: Carl Sundquist wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: So are you saying Connie Carpenter made no money in cycling or that she was an Olympic fraud? Take your pick, O-CarlWan. Amateur? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Dumbass. Bob Schwartz Dude, Lance Armstrong and Jonas Carney delayed turning pro until 1993 because they both didn't want to make themselves ineligible for the '92 Barcelona Games. What definition of amateur are you using? Back in 1984, it was a foregone conclusion that amateur status meant you did not make any money from your sport. To do so was to risk being made ineligible for the Olympics. What other definition is there? Magilla Says who? And what difference was there between pre'84 and post'84? Name one rider who was deeked from the Olympics for receiving money? A lot of athletes were threatened with a ban if they received any money....athletes like Steve Prefontaine. Magilla What bike races did he do? Prefontaine wasn't allowed to receive any prize money or appearance fee or he would have been DQ'ed from the Olympic Team as per thhe AAU rules back in the mid 1970's going into Montreal, right before Pre rolled it. I don't see how the rules were different for cyclists. Magilla |
#105
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
MagillaGorilla wrote:
Bob Schwartz wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: Back in 1984, it was a foregone conclusion that amateur status meant you did not make any money from your sport. To do so was to risk being made ineligible for the Olympics. What other definition is there? Dumbass, Amateur status did not mean what you think it meant. Are you really under the impression that everyone got merchandise prizes? Not only did I occasionally make money from the sport without jeopardizing my amateur status, I also accelerated in velodrome turns. Now stop wetting the bed and move along. Bob Schwartz How do you know you didn't jeopardize your Olympic status? Half the elite riders today don't even know what the selection criteria are for the Olympic team going into an Olympic year even though they can download the freakin' pdf file from the USAC website. Yet you will have everyone in here believe you knew for a fact you didn't jeopardize your Olympic status back in the day before the Internets was invented? What about the velodrome turns? Aren't you going to address the velodrome turns? Bob Schwartz |
#106
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
On Dec 5, 5:55*pm, MagillaGorilla wrote:
Bob Schwartz wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote: So are you saying Connie Carpenter made no money in *cycling or that she was an Olympic fraud? *Take your pick, O-CarlWan. Amateur? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Dumbass. Bob Schwartz Dude, Lance Armstrong and Jonas Carney delayed turning pro until 1993 because they both didn't want to make themselves ineligible for the '92 Barcelona Games. *What definition of amateur are you using? Back in 1984, it was a foregone conclusion that amateur status meant you did not make any money from your sport. *To do so was to risk being made ineligible for the Olympics. *What other definition is there? dumbass, different sports used different standards to mean what amateur meant. in alpine skiing all the top world cup skiers were able to compete as amateurs. you talk about poor pro riders as indentured servants, but when there are funds available the riders get a share. the biggest exploiter of athletes is the NCAA, since they've set up a system that generates millions from a free workforce. |
#107
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
On Dec 2, 9:04*pm, MagillaGorilla wrote:
I understand that. But that doesn't really refute anything I was saying concerning prize money and how having a poor purse ****es off pro riders. *They just hate racing for nickels and dimes. Let me ask you something...why do you think Sara Carrigan retired at the age of 28? She was actually on the verge of retirement since the Athens Olympics (age 24) because she couldn't make any money in the sport. *So lowering the women's purse by 50% - which is what LaPorte was trying to sell as a good thing - is not a good thing. Kristin Armstrong will probably also retire because no team will pay her a decent salary..nobody cares about her gold medal. * She will reap her just desserts for not starting or joining a union.. dumbass, carrigan should complain to the IOC about the size of the purse for the olympics. personally i don't think it's a tragedy if a person can't get paid to ride a bicycle and i couldn't care less if every pro team folded tomorrow. generally the amount a person gets paid is going to be related to what their perceived economic value is. all the rbr kunichs should stop day dreaming that bike racing will be a big time american pro sport and dr. frank's cross-country extravaganza will be the superbowl of march madness. cycling is a great activity, but a lousy profession for 99% of those that are trying to make it their profession. american racing has a long way to go before it can even hope to pay for itself. even bike racers aren't that interested in watching a bike race. master fatties would rather go antiquing with their trophy wives than "stick around to watch the pros race". instead of wasting money on stupid short sighted projects that burn through sponsor cash without anything to show for it (ie. all 12k dreamer teams), cycling people should work at attracting more riders and work towards being able to put on bigger and better events. hotshot cat 3s will be put off by the influx of freds, but that is how triathlon and running are able to put on sustainable events. we are paying $800/hr just to keep roads closed for a quality road race, given a 400 rider field that event is barely sustainable, not to mention the hostility we get for using the road. apparently marathon organizers, the santa claus parade and millions of stupid food fairs have their **** together more than cyclists do. |
#108
|
|||
|
|||
Nature Valley Girl
Carl Sundquist wrote:
. . . (ISTR there was a _published_ cap on what an amateur rider could win/earn, (i.e. receive) on a daily basis. I think the amount was $10k per day. Somebody with an old USCF rulebook please check it out and report back.) I was editor of the USCF Rulebooks from 1978 to 1985 but recall no such published caps in that era. However I did find an authorization for such caps that was adopted in 1982 by FIAC (the amateur cycling arm of UCI, not to be confused with the modern FIAC). Their Article 9 said: Art. 9 To be admitted to take part in the Olympic Games an athlete must: -Hold a license issued by a national federation affiliated to FIAC, -Be 17 years old or reach his 17th years during the solar year of the Olympic Games, -Observe and respect the FIAC rules and Rule 26 of the I.O.C. as well as its bye-law and guidelines, in conformity with the text of the rule enclosed within the FIAC Technical Guidelines, -Not have received prizes in cash or kind of value exceeding the amount hereunder specified: the maximum value of prizes in cash or kind of value for road races, for each stage of a stage race or a track race will be established each year by each national federation. The amount established by the national federation should be acknowledged by FIAC, which will notify all affiliated federations. [etc.] No such cap was adopted by USCF at that time but in the late 1980s (I would have to dig some to pinpoint the year) USCF adopted Rule 1E5a saying that "The maximum that can be accepted by a rider is $2,500 per day of racing." However that rule was removed in 1992, which was when the old FIAC disappeared. Thereafter you were an "amateur" or a "professional" based on which kind of license you purchased but you could earn a lot of money in either case if you were good enough. This was during the long era of "shamteurism" in which various athletic organizations officially continued to endorse amateurism while winking at enforcement. After World War 2 the Eastern Bloc countries set up programs to win Olympic medals in which top athletes were put on salary while pretending to be amateurs. Western countries pretended to continue following the amateurism rules but with increasing hypocrisy. For example, when I started racing and officiating in the early 1970s only equipment prizes were allowed--no cash. However over time promoters began to quietly hand envelops containing cash to winners and eventually this practice was officially condoned. Unfortunately while the Internal Revenue Service follows the sensible rule that a cycling pro is one who makes his or her living from cycling and can therefore deduct their expenses for this work, another U.S. Federal Law, the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, still pretends that there is another distinction between amateurs and pros. That law gives the U.S. Olympic Committee and its members, including USA Cycling, monopolies on access to international amateur competition but fails to define what that is. Even worse, though these sports monopolies are required to be charitable nonprofit corporations there is no requirement that they provide democratic representation of their members. In practice, commercial interests have spent what it takes to gain control of these organizations that oversee their businesses, as has happened to USA Cycling. So far the truly amateur riders don't seem to give a damn and the truly pros are evidently afraid to rock the boat and jeopardize their job, so this situation will likely continue for awhile. However given that Ted Stevens' influence is waning, there is a chance that the U.S. Congress will eventually wake up and fix this mess. Unfortunately there are some bigger messes that they need to address first. -Les Earnest |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Nature Valley GP on TV | [email protected] | Racing | 0 | June 28th 07 12:47 AM |
Nature Valley GP | [email protected] | Racing | 0 | June 12th 07 12:21 AM |
Nature Valley GP on OLN - U.S. Viewers | Frank Drackman | Racing | 0 | August 8th 06 06:45 PM |
Nature Valley Grand Prix on TV | David LaPorte | Racing | 1 | August 3rd 06 10:27 PM |
Nature Valley Race coverage | Jet | Racing | 2 | September 13th 05 05:01 PM |