Prudhomme says Dutch Tour de France bill is baseless
The director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, has disputed the validity of a €140,000 bill sent to him by the Dutch Cycling Federation (KNWU) for the Tour start in Utrecht. Prudhomme told Raymond Kerckhoffs of de Telegraaf that the bill was "absurdly high and baseless".
Race promoters in the Netherlands normally pay a fee to the KNWU, but the local organising committee from Utrecht says its role in hosting the Tour de France was merely to facilitate the race, not to organise it. They felt the fee should be paid by Tour de France organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO).
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In the rich history of the Tour de France the organizers ASO has never, for a Grand Départ, had to pay a bill to a national cycling federation. "Out of nowhere, we received a bill of almost 140,000 euros from the Dutch Cycling Federation (National Federation). An absurdly high amount, baseless," notes Tour director Christian Prudhomme.
KNWU director Huib Kloosterhuis said, "ASO does not want to pay, but it must conform to the rules of the country that it visits."
Prudhomme disagreed. "We are lacking any explanation of how the union came to this amount and what it has done for this. Never before, not in London, Monaco, Yorkshire or Rotterdam, we have ever received such a bill from a federation. "
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