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Very well put.

Born philosopher by the sounds of it. I was impressed by his standpoint too. It is very simple and very sound. He is obviously happier for it. All power to him. Unfortunately, human nature and the reality/inconsistency of life will never allow for anymore than a small percentage of people to...

http://uec-federation.eu/img/2/Statutes_of_the_European_Cycling_Union.pdf This details the process and powers whereby the continental congress delegation for the UEC is elected. I can't imagine the process within the other confeds would be much different? I just flicked through and it seems to...

Does that answer the question? It's from the pdf i posted earlier... http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/ge...QxMDk&LangId=1 SO each continental confederation votes amongst themselves to choose a voting delegation to represent them at the UCI congress? which is the highest authority in the UCI...

Right. Now it makes more sense to me I think... only 42 delegates vote and you don't know which ones it is out of that list? So the questions raised... 1: Is the list of voting delegates/federations static or dynamic? 2: If it is dynamic, what process/parameters decide who is or is not a...

Yes. It is worrying. If cadel has always been clean I can't see how it would make a difference. He is hardly going to just start doping now depending on who runs the team etc... However if he has been dirty for some or all of his career then well it simply follows and looks a little worse...

Exactly. That is one of the reasons that I started this thread... Apart from the black humour of it all, of course. It represents a significant shift in rhetoric. That Perierro response is a timely and definitive example of what we are hearing a lot of now.

Classic. I've noticed that more than once too. Lances are all so perfect... his legal team have had so many years to master it i guess...

This is more for humour than anything else... but it could potentially spark some debate regarding what has or has not qualified as such a statement. Who do think has given the best 'veiled doping admission-non-admission'? They seem to be far more common and eloquent of late. Almost de...

http://www.uci.ch/templates/UCI/UCI1/layout.asp?MenuId=MTI2NjU&LangId=1 is this it??

there is 6... from... http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/six-national-federations-oppose-uci-protour

LOL... should be able to get it on request if it can't be found on the website... i'm looking

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=MzQxMDk&LangId=1 I havn't read it all yet so i am sure that there is more of interest there. That just seemed to jump out straight away as a summary of the UCI's power structure. I'm trying to find a list of...

couldn't agree more

Sorry I am working largely from memory without checking all of my facts. So I am sure that your timeline is more accurate. I would disagree that he wasn't their only real card though. What else of note did they win during those years? Apart from Gilbert's one day consistency and occasional...