On 8/5/2020 12:01 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 5:41:34 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/4/2020 6:58 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
I just got another disinteresting copy of Velonews and it showed the teams that will ride the Tour de France. And there wasn't a single Italian team on it. This brings up the question - Are there any Italian based teams anymore? There are a lot of Italian Teams and Ineos is British.

Your question may have no answer or the answer may be
meaningless:

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features...ke-guide-2020/

Riders have mixed parentage, fluid citizenship and even
sometimes dual citizenship so who is Italian?

Bike brands are more convoluted in that, for example,
Bianchi is a Nederlander company mostly selling Asian frames
with Japanese parts. Is that little Red-White-Green sticker
Italian enough for you?

Although 7/11 was an American team they did have foreign riders. Same with Team Motorola. America changed the face of European bike racing buy bringing proper pay to the bicycle racer. You're not suggesting that Italian Teams couldn't bring their own character to the Grand Tours are you? Maybe half of the teams in the Tour are French


I have no idea or opinion.
In fact, I think this entire area of inquiry has become
pointless in our modern world.

related: Pagani uses German engines. It it still 'Italian'?

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