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Article: Shoestring budget runs dry for USA Cycling
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 27, 2000
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Buddy, can you spare $200,000?
That's how large USA Cycling's budget shortfall is this year,
which just happens to be an Olympic year, which is part of the
problem.
Because sponsorship funding fell off, USA Cycling only had about
$1.9 million to fund its programs, which range from hosting training
camps to picking up the tab for all the travel and competition
expenses for dozens of junior- and senior-level elite cyclists.
Compare that to the approximately $6-$9 million spent by the U.S.
Postal Service team, which has only 16 members, the most famous of
which is two-time Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong.
"It goes pretty quick," said Sean Petty, USA Cycling's director
of athlete ...