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The Sky cash filled the coffers of British Cycling as a whole, which then gave varying levels of support to the aforementioned riders (Cooke says not very much, Pooley suggests an ok amount). That's how team sponsorship works, individuals don't "see" any pennies of cash themselves, it's for the team and organisation.
A rarely spotted sight - Nicole Cooke's name and the word 'team' seen in the same statement 😉
Whilst I can (sadly) see the financial side to the whole sponsoring the more high profile element (men's cycling) of the sport, I still find it a shame that there was no women's equivalent. Could Brailsford made it a condition of getting the men's gig? Maybe he tried, who knows - I doubt even Pooley.
However, the typical figures needed to be the main sponsor of a cycling team vary massively from a men's to a women's team with women paid a lot less etc. Maybe if you sponsored both and did pay very differently you would be opening yourself up to some difficult discrimination charges. It would be interesting to know how the football teams get around that one.
Maybe if you sponsored both and did pay very differently you would be opening yourself up to some difficult discrimination charges. It would be interesting to know how the football teams get around that one.
image rights payments, that's part of the scam of avoiding PAYE on their vastly inflated wages
Maybe if you sponsored both and did pay very differently you would be opening yourself up to some difficult discrimination charges. It would be interesting to know how the football teams get around that one.
I doubt it, you would tend to pay a lump sum to a business in exchange for a pre-agreed quantity of exposure on their kit, not a particular amount to each individual. If one of those pieces of exposure was branding on womens team kit, it would just sit in the list alongside the rest.
If anyone could be held up on discrimination charges (and I think the grounds for it are exceptionally weak), it would be the team for choosing to divvy up the fee differently between each of the teams.
I doubt it, [b]you would tend to pay a lump sum to a business in exchange for a pre-agreed quantity of exposure on their kit, not a particular amount to each individual.[/b] If one of those pieces of exposure was branding on womens team kit, it would just sit in the list alongside the rest.
If anyone could be held up on discrimination charges (and I think the grounds for it are exceptionally weak), it would be the team for choosing to divvy up the fee differently between each of the teams.
I know how team sponsorship works - I was in one. Although there are often win bonuses directly from the sponsor for particular riders (so I hear - never an issue for me!)
No, I was thinking beyond 'charges' in simple legalistic way. Sponsorship is mainly a massive exercise in public awareness and PR. You sponsor a crap team synonymous with failure, your brand value dives. The team you sponsor and has your name plastered all over it's tops pays their high profile team leaders (say for example Froome and Armistead) very differently it's a media bad news 'charge' of discrimination waiting to happen - and your brand value takes a hit.
The team you sponsor and has your name plastered all over it's tops pays their high profile team leaders (say for example Froome and Armistead) very differently it's a media bad news 'charge' of discrimination waiting to happen.
If things went that way, easiest solution as a sponsor (btw, I know how this works, from the other side of the fence to you) would be to just not sponsor joint male and female teams, or not sponsor any sports at all. That's a much worse situation to be in for sport.
I expect he apologised because Fran Miller took him into a corner and beat him over the head with his own iPhone. (I presume Fran is still TeamSky media person?).
She's been promoted. And funnily enough in the latest Cycling Podcast special when asked who hands out the bollockings Ian Boswell says "Fran Millar".
the women's version never seems to be as exciting/good as the men's.
It's often closer racing, but it can suffer from lack of 'investment' from spectators in not knowing the background, the characters etc which adds depth to the racing.