New News About Cycling Grand Tours

In contrast to what I said before, the three Grand Tours pulling out of the ProTour has now totally changed the calendar of the ProTour. Read what CyclingNews.com had to say.

Taken from CyclingNews.com...

The UCI's ProTour project looks to be under big pressure following the news that the organizers of the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España have pulled out of the series with immediate effect. Speaking at a press conference today, the organizers announced that they are also withdrawing the eight other races organized by them, namely Paris Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo, Paris-Roubaix, Fleche Wallonne, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Paris-Tours and the Tour of Lombardy.

Shocking! Pulling out all the other races which they organise is huge. This could break the ProTour, though there are still plenty of other races. Only problem is that the ASO runs the most popular, oldest, most prestigious races.