cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoEnvironmental protester halt the world championship in cycling... one of the best alternatives to fuel driven transportation....lemmy.worldimagemessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up1633arrow-down1128
arrow-up1505arrow-down1imageEnvironmental protester halt the world championship in cycling... one of the best alternatives to fuel driven transportation....lemmy.worldcosmicrookie@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square162fedilink
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down12·11 months ago I’m sure they had many sponsors? Visit https://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.
minus-squareOddbin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-211 months ago“One of the riders in the lead group was Britain’s Owain Doull. British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell.” https://www.reuters.com/sports/cycling/protesters-halt-mens-road-race-2023-08-06/
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down11·11 months ago British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell.” Visit https://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.
minus-squareGreengreengreens@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 months agohttps://www.britishcycling.org.uk/partners Shell is the first one listed on this page.
minus-squareOddbin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 months agoDunno 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.
minus-squareidunnololz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoThis is what I see Sauce: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/partners
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down15·11 months agoHuh, 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.
minus-squareSpimble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·11 months agoIs shell paying you to run defence? I don’t get it. Shell=bad and you should google it if you don’t know why
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·11 months agoShell is good and you’re a lunatic.
minus-squarearefxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoY’all remember that post the other day about leaving all the idiots behind on reddit… About that…
Visit https://www.cyclingworldchamps.com/ and scroll to the bottom. Neither Shell nor Ineos are on the list of sponsors.
Seems the protestors didn’t either.
“One of the riders in the lead group was Britain’s Owain Doull. British Cycling is sponsored by oil company Shell.”
https://www.reuters.com/sports/cycling/protesters-halt-mens-road-race-2023-08-06/
Visit https://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.
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/partners Shell is the first one listed on this page.
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.
This is what I see
Sauce: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/partners
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.
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
Shell is good and you’re a lunatic.
Y’all remember that post the other day about leaving all the idiots behind on reddit… About that…