{"id":2014,"date":"2025-07-18T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2014\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:55:08","slug":"we-dont-want-you-here-anymore-tour-de-france-organisers-threaten-action-against-beloved-pcs-camper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2014\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe don\u2019t want you here anymore\u201d \u2013 Tour de France organisers threaten action against beloved PCS camper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still, they haven\u2019t left. \u201cYet we\u2019re still there, parked<br \/>\namong the fans, cheering every stage, even if it feels like we\u2019re fading into<br \/>\nthe background,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cIf you do spot us, please come say<br \/>\nhi. Whether you\u2019re a fan, journalist, team director, or even an ASO staffer,<br \/>\nthere\u2019s always a cup of coffee waiting at the camper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation escalated behind the scenes in early June,<br \/>\nwhen ASO sent an email to PCS CEO Stephan van der Zwan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/tour-de-france-threatens-pro-cycling-stats-with-legal-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to BikeRadar<\/a>,<br \/>\nthe message made it clear: ASO considers itself the \u201cexclusive owner of the<br \/>\nexploitation rights for the cycling events\u201d it organises, including the Tour de<br \/>\nFrance, La Vuelta, and Paris\u2013Roubaix.<\/p>\n<p>The email accused PCS of \u201criding on the coat tails of<br \/>\ncertain ASO events for which it holds no media accreditation by conspicuously<br \/>\nparking a campervan branded with the \u2018ProCyclingStats.com\u2019 trademark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van der Zwan says a tense meeting followed. \u201cI opened the<br \/>\nmeeting and had five people against me instead of one, including their highest<br \/>\nlawyer. They only wanted to tell me \u2018We don\u2019t want you here anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The impasse was resolved with a compromise: PCS would<br \/>\nremain, but the branding had to go. Van der Zwan has leaned into the absurdity<br \/>\nof the demand with a tongue-in-cheek workaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, they haven\u2019t left. \u201cYet we\u2019re still there, parked among the fans, cheering every stage, even if it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}