New PDF release: The Economics of Professional Road Cycling

By Daam Van Reeth, Daniel Joseph Larson

ISBN-10: 3319223119

ISBN-13: 9783319223117

ISBN-10: 3319223127

ISBN-13: 9783319223124

Over the prior decade, a transforming into physique of educational literature at the economics of highway biking has been gathered. This e-book is the 1st quantity to assemble a majority of the educational examine and information at the economics and administration highway biking. every one bankruptcy treats a specific fiscal point of the game, from organizational constitution to advertising, exertions, video game thought, and aggressive stability. by way of discussing the prevailing learn and complementing it with the most recent thoughts, rules and information on expert highway biking, this e-book units an time table for additional educational examine whereas delivering insights for all stakeholders in biking: governments, cycling's governing our bodies, workforce managers, race organizers, sponsors, media. additionally, the original features of the game of biking explored inside this article tell broader administration and commercial association examine, as they expand analyses of staff hard work, broadcast profit iteration, and sponsorship financing types. This booklet is both of curiosity to educational researchers, scholars learning activities economics, and coverage makers, similar to race organizers, staff managers, and sponsors.

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Mignot In the 1920s, when the Grand Tours started being broadcast on the radio, the public wanted to follow the race live, which given the limited radio time required more nervous, hence shorter, stages. In turn, the shortening of stages enabled organizers to increase the number of stages. In the 2000s, the mean distance per racing day has been relatively shorter in the Vuelta than in the other two Grand Tours, perhaps partly because the Vuelta is now raced at the end of the cycling season. If organizers want to have a nervous race despite riders’ tiredness, they need to organize relatively short stages.

Part of the recent history of professional road cycling is a series of large-scale doping scandals, which, starting with the Festina case in 1998, seriously damaged the image of the sport (doping in cycling will be discussed in detail in Chap. 13). This had considerable consequences for the development of its organization, since it drastically reduced the commercial potential of cycling, with diminishing spectators’ interest, many sponsors abandoning the sport and less coverage by the media. Germany is probably the most striking example.

UCI 2014b, pp. 36–41). The riders licensed by the UCI take part in official race events, usually not as single starters but organized in teams. In 2015, there are 17 UCI ProTeams, 20 UCI Professional Continental teams, and 152 UCI Continental Teams (see also Table 3 below). The main stakeholders, race organizers, cycling teams, and professional riders are organized UCI (International Cycling Union) National cycling federations Riders Races Teams CPA ASO RCS / Unipublic / Flanders Classics Other race organisers AIGCP AIOCC Fig.

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