In July, the Netherlands was under the scene of the Grand Depart of the Tour de France, but the Dutch Cycling Federation KNWU is still waiting for 140 000 euros from the ASO.

This season the great atmosphere in the Netherlands won a place in the collective cycling memory. The windy stage to Zeeland where Quintana lost time and the opening time trial made a spectacular show.

But the Dutch Cycling Federation KNWU is still waiting to receive  a hefty sum of money from Tour organizer ASO: 140,000 euros. The National Federation has filed an arbitration case with the UCI.

Why do the Tour organizers must pay money to a national federation? "The organizers of cycling races all pay a smaller or larger amount to the KNWU," Huib Kloosterhuis, director of the Dutch Cycling Federation, tells Sporza.

"For ASO, it is a small amount but for us that's serious money and that is why we can't accept it.

"If ASO does not comply with the rules, the Tour won't return to the Netherlands. The Giro and the Vuelta are also very beautiful."