Bruyneel Criticizes Unfair Treatment By ASO
Johan Bruyneel is not surprising upset and critical of the decision by the ASO to exclude Astana from all of its events in 2008.
“I feel unfairly treated,” Bruyneel told The Associated Press by telephone Friday. “I had a long talk with Alberto (Contador) about this. He’s upset, but at the same time he is young and he has already one Tour de France in his pocket, and (one) Paris-Nice.”
The history of Astana sponsored teams int he Tour was not very good, but under the completely different management structure only the sponsor name really remains.
“We don’t part with the winner of the Tour for the fun of it, but (Astana) is the team he chose,” Prudhomme said. “Contador was in no way targeted.”