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hiero2 said:
Have you written your UCI rep today and told them McQUAID and VERBRUGGEN MUST GO?

No.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cycling-in-olympics-not-under-threat-by-ioc
UCI presidents will not face investigation

While the International Olympic Committee will await the full decision of the UCI before stripping Lance Armstrong of his 2000 Olympic Games bronze medal, one thing it is not intending to pursue is investigations into those in charge of the UCI during the time of cycling's deepest doping problems.
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The IOC maintains that cycling is under no threat of being removed from the Games. "It would not be correct to punish the vast majority of clean athletes if we exclude the UCI from the Games," said the IOC, adding that while the UCI often finds itself in the center of major doping scandals, "it is also a pioneer in the fight against doping

IOC delegates / members trump local UCI / national federation delegates.
 
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This hard-line anti-doping guy got booted from ASO to pave the way for Lance's return.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/clerc-calls-on-aso-to-assume-greater-responsibility
Patrice Clerc, the former president of ASO, has called on the Tour de France organisers to assume greater responsibility in the management of cycling in the wake of the Lance Armstrong affair. In an interview with Le Monde, Clerc said that cycling's system must change if it is to avoid a repeat of the past decade.

He's saying ASO need to pick up their act. Others are saying the UCI need to be replaced. Others that the passport needs some serious work. I agree with all. They should happen in concert. Do only one, and nothing changes.

He's really saying what I believe:
“Armstrong is dead, may he rest in peace. But today, the system that enabled this needs to be dismantled. If it’s not taken apart, if we don’t identify what didn’t work, then cycling won’t get out of this. The system in which these practices thrived is still the same. The men are the same: from the rule makers to the financiers of the UCI, the team managers…”

A holistic approach, and a system designed for the desired outcome. That's what is needed.