We think a lot about how to limit the speed of bicycles, but nobody realized that the speed to be limited is also that of the riders' training processesThe students already have an agent who follows them. The juniors are the antechamber of professionalism. I have to team up They are the antechamber of the WorldTour. And the numbers are shrinking dramatically (at least in Italy) because the number of teams is progressively eroding every year (opening image, photors.it of the Coppa Città di San Daniele).
I I have to team up, if you look closely, they risk being smoke and mirrors. If you don't succeed, quit. If you're lucky, you'll get another Continental. But if in the meantime you have also become elite, your fate is sealed.One might argue that if you don't make it big after four years as an U23, maybe you weren't born to be a rider. But if along the way, there were physical problems that kept you out of competition, then logic fails.
In or out
It would be helpful if these few lines were read. parents of kids who ride bikesBoth those who see young riders as an opportunity to increase resources, and those who care about their future and wonder how to manage them.
At 17 you're in the loop, maybe even at 16. At 18 they advise you to drop out of school and enroll in an online course, so you can better manage training and the final examsThen maybe you become a professional at 19, and since you're not afraid of anything, you let go of the brakes and bring your share of disorder into the group. Finally, at 23, you probably live in a place with lower taxes.
If you want to have fun cross-referencing the names of the riders, their choices, and the agents who represent them, you'll notice that the pattern is quite repeatable. Everyone, rightly, has identified their own recipe and offers it to their clients.Is the success rate also written on the recipe?
The Ghost Regions
It would be useful to have more information than that offered on the UCI website, which reports thelist of authorized agents. It would be interesting to have the number of riders followed next to each agentIt's true that if you earn a percentage, it's natural to try to increase the number of contributors. However, it's probably not even healthy for the movement to create... high concentrations under the same umbrella, effectively excluding those who at 17 don't have an agent, still have a relative concept of sport and think about finishing school first and then throwing themselves headlong into pedaling.
In all this, have you noticed that the Calabrian riders have now disappeared, there are very few people from Puglia and Lazio, while there are almost no Sicilians left, who have also won many races in recent years? This is because in the South there are no teams or races and the Northern clubs and talent scouts don't even bother to go and see the little that there is. The agents take care of passing the riders to him, so what does it matter where they come from? They're pursuing their own interests and their own work, there's little more to say. But this way, they're giving up a significant portion of the population and potentially very strong athletes. Whose job is it to ensure this isn't just occasional or predatory?
