The professional cycling season is now firmly underway following events in countries such as Qatar, and with preparations for the spring classics now taking place. But what will this season bring? Events are being cancelled, sponsors are withdrawing and teams are folding - can the sport continue in the same vein as it has done over the last decade or so? How many more drugs scandals can the sport inflict upon itself? Are we effectively seeing a free-market (rather than a regulatory) solution to cycling´s problems, whereby the sport will have to change because it can no longer sustain itself? Are the teams and riders to blame? Or are our expectations of professional cycling too great? Long stages? Riders facing too many PR and commercial duties? The need to be successful has become evermore imperative? Media demands are too great? Does this all mean that we could be witnessing the death of a sport, or is there a way back from the edge of the precipice?
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