London pull out of 2017 Grand Depart

[Bobby Mhor]

No funding apparently HERE

Sorry if I've posted in wrong bit of forum

 

[alicat]

Oh good, Yorkshire can have it again.

 

[Dayvo]

The organisers won't forget that in a hurry.

Au revoir, Londres.

 

[derrick]

What a bunch of w*****s.

 

[albion]

That saving will pay for the garden bridge daffodils.

 

[themosquitoking]

Dislike this immensely but struggling to think how we would have had two or three stages in London.

 

[oldfatfool]

Guess thats the last we will see of le tour for a good many years.

 

[Slioch]

Just bring it back up to Yorkshire. At least we'll do it properly up here.

 

[Basil.B]

Better to have it in Yorkshire, better scenery!
I find watching them go round the same old routes in London rather tedious now.
The last stage in this years Tour of Britain was dull as ditchwater.

 

[davefb]

The organisers won't forget that in a hurry.

Au revoir, Londres.

but will they tar all the uk with that london brush though, since normally any uk starts always end up in london at some point?
if london hadn't bothered , would manchester have had a better chance ?

 

[themosquitoking]

but will they tar all the uk with that london brush though, since normally any uk starts always end up in london at some point?
if london hadn't bothered , would manchester have had a better chance ?

Manchester always has a better chance of winning when London doesn't enter.

 

[HF2300]

but will they tar all the uk with that london brush though, since normally any uk starts always end up in london at some point?
if london hadn't bothered , would manchester have had a better chance ?

They won't tar all the UK with the London brush after the success of the Grand Depart in Yorkshire. They can't ignore that many spectators and that much revenue.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

They won't tar all the UK with the London brush after the success of the Grand Depart in Yorkshire. They can't ignore that many spectators and that much revenue.

Welcome to Yorkshire might not be too keen
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-visit-leaves-welcome-to-yorkshire-1m-out-of-pocket/

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Welcome to Yorkshire might not be too keen
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-visit-leaves-welcome-to-yorkshire-1m-out-of-pocket/

I'm sure any generated tourist interest/publicity might be worth that loss...
but the merchandising was a bit of a daftie..

 

[martint235]

They won't tar all the UK with the London brush after the success of the Grand Depart in Yorkshire. They can't ignore that many spectators and that much revenue.

I think the French will surprise you with how petty they can be. They've been very keen on London, for the tour to visit 3 times in 10 years would have been pretty good going for a foreign city. I doubt they'll even look at England again in the next 10 years, they may see Glasgow or Edinburgh as an opportunity to spite England given the push for independence