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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure they had many sponsors?

  Visit www.cyclingworldchamps.com and scroll to the bottom. Neither Shell nor Ineos are on the list of sponsors.

  Admittedly, I’ve done zero research…

  Seems the protestors didn’t either.

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  • Oddbin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “One of the riders in the lead group was Britain’s Owain Doull. British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell.”

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell.”

      Visit www.britishcycling.org.uk and scroll to the bottom. Neither Shell nor Ineos are on the list of sponsors, only lotteries.

      On Twitter the group claims that Ineos is fielding a team, now British Cycling is allegedly sponsored by Shell and yet visiting any of the official web sites does not list any of those sponsors. Must be very shy sponsors.

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      • Oddbin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Dunno what to tell you bud. Reuters, BBC etc all report it so either they’re all lying or they see it where we don’t.

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  • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is what I see Image

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh, so indeed one of those shy sponsors that don’t appear on the main page in the footer.

      So reading through that, the Shell sponsorship is about bike chain lubricants and electric charging. Yes, very evil things.

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      • Spimble@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is shell paying you to run defence? I don’t get it. Shell=bad and you should google it if you don’t know why

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