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Pat came through this week though, with a three year license for Romandie. http://www.uci.ch/Modules/ENews/ENewsDetails.asp?id=OTU5OA&MenuId=MTI2Mjc Gotta make sure UCI voters know you keep your promises, even if you lose your job backing Pat. Not only that, the license expires just before...

Sorry, I went a little hard there. I commend your decision not to. And yes there are choices. There's also a choice about what rules we have in sport and who enforces them. As for social engineering, what you are suggesting the anti-doping effort is, its not about waving a wand and...

Except for the 30 young dutch and belgian guys, and almost manzano. I think this is missing the point of the current debate. It's not so much that riders have given in to temptation, it is: 'what was wrong with the system that allowed it'? If we don't find out, we're condemned to repeat it. I...

John Tolkamp, the Cycling Canada president has issued this open letter to other federations. It's not really calling for his resignation, but it is calling his approach into question. I'd urge Clinicians to follow-up with their national federation presidents. Whoever runs against McQuaid in...

Yes, I agree Dqueued, thanks to John Tolkamp. Wish there was a way to hear if there are repercussions. Hope cdn organizers, riders, officials stand by him. May I suggest readers forward the link to their federations president? It would be great to see us get to a tipping point. McQuaid can't...

I think the benefit would be the exposure of the UCI complicity, a demonstration of the need for change in the constitutions of the UCI (open, supervised elections, no life terms for commission members), and the evidence that the anti-doping efforts have to be carried out by those outside the...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lausanne-laboratory-gave-armstrong-key-to-beating-epo-test-says-tygart So is this evidence more of Saugy's corruption, or UCI's coercion (they were paying for the testing then i guess)? Endorsement from the Swiss cycling organization seems like faint praise.

UCI didn't sign the WADA code until 2004 (Holding off until Lance was done winning tours maybe? :)), and this was 2001, 2002. That means any of their testing results were reported to them, not anti doping agencies. They, and only they, because only the rider and UCI got forms with names) had...

Heard from one former employee that meeting Verbruggen was like having someone walk over your grave. Or something similarly Voldemortish. :) he had an office there at the time. Assume he still does. Since being on the management committee is for life . (See bike pure proposal.)

Was just idly wondering if Hein will ever admit the failure in anti-doping. Knowing he brought the Mars sponsorship to the Flandria team, I googled Mars Flandria team to see how the doping past is viewed there. I suppose it's not surprising they don't mention the many positive tests on...

I was struck by how cocky Armstrong must have been to take out an insurance policy that foresaw 7 tour wins. Unless he knew he could win through his connections. I wonder what correlation there is between him receiving cheques from SCA, and UCI officials receiving cheques?

I think it's also concerning that the practice seems to be to announce testers are there and ask riders to find them. Sounds like the 90's tour de france when they helpfully announce the riders selected for doping control, oops, sorry "'edical control', over the race radio an hour before...

I think this is oversimplified or it would have happened by now. I suspect the national federation presidents are reluctant to come out against the leader of such an oligarchical organization. They have objectives at the UCI that being seen as a rebel won't help. Races to argue for (eg...

Maybe it does show a better decline than other sports. Finally figured out how to read the graph. (If you click on a sport, each individual sports graph line shows up. Cycling does appear to have a pretty good drop in positives, better than the others.) Be still my beating heart.