An open letter to UCI President Pat McQuaid..

[Colm.Murphy]

Dr. M,

Great letter, well coordinated with the links for reference.

I think adding detail as to any material discussion internally regarding the need for and purchase of a blood testing machine should be requested, including documentation as to its first mention.

Also, the timing of the receipt of payment as it aligns with the news of Lance's 1999 samples being positive should also be considered, Vrijman report non-withstanding. What was UCI's cost in producing the Vrijman report?

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Of course it won't appear in records, the only real solution to the Tour de Suisee situation is a retest of the samples, if they even exist.

I'm not surprised at all by the UCI's reaction. Hein must go, so must Pat.

Yes, someone like LeMond should run the UCI, but that won't happen. Hein and all around him would fear that, and Greg wouldn't do it. But it would sure clean things up.

I just wish Sylvia got the job when she was looking for it.

SS would never have gotten the job for the same reason that Lemond would never get the job.

Corruption at the UCI (and the IOC) goes far deeper than just McQuaid and Hein. Look at the corruption allegations into the track events at the olympics and yet absolutely no heads rolled over that.

McQuaid will be protected because he is Hein's boy, because he has the support of US cycling etc etc. The whole edifice is rotten to the core.

 

[2beacoup]

Maybe a case for the IOC ethic commision?

 

[Tubeless]

Sounds like there were 2 separate payments to UCI from Armstrong. First one back in April 2002 to cover up a doping positive and a second payment to assist UCI in clearing Armstrong's name with the Vrijman report. This would explain the conflicting dates, different recollections of the exact amounts, and the changing stories?

 

[Anonymous]

Add this to the letter:

 

[Colm.Murphy]

and this....

 

[theswordsman]

The less tactful part of me would also add: In what universe are donations from a current or recent competitor ever a good idea? Frankly, this is the kind of activity that brings governments down.

I'd apply the same to President Sarkozy for devoting an hour of his work day to talk to Armstrong and Bruyneel and accept a custom painted Madone while both are persons of interest in an investigation into doping paraphernalia by the Central Office against Environmental Damage and Public Health (OCLAESP).

 

[Dr. Maserati]

I also had the idea of an open letter to the UCI. But since I'm no native English speaker, I'm not able to articulate it like you did Dr. M.

What about an online petition that cycling fans around the world can sign? I know a lot people here in Germany who feel fooled after they woke up from their Jan-dream and who believe in an alternative way for professional cycling.

Where can I sign? Real cycling fans unite!

As you say -real Cycling fans unite!

Maybe someone could start a 'facebook' page..... or even highlight this thread on Twitter? Because the more I look at this the worse it gets.

How is it -since Friday - Pat was able to get in touch with OCLD/Afld, the lab in Lausanne, the Tour de Suisse organisers and then WADA - and get paperwork from them all to say there was no 'positive test'.

And yet for the 'donation' he can not provide a single piece of paper- when it is in the same building he works in?!

 

[Anonymous]

As you say -real Cycling fans unite!

Maybe someone could start a 'facebook' page..... or even highlight this thread on Twitter? Because the more I look at this the worse it gets.

How is it -since Friday - Pat was able to get in touch with OCLD/Afld, the lab in Lausanne, the Tour de Suisse organisers and then WADA - and get paperwork from them all to say there was no 'positive test'.

And yet for the 'donation' he can not provide a single piece of paper- when it is in the same building he works in?!

just pick up a cheap domain and host it all there, where it cant be deleted, moved, removed, tampered with etc.
and put all the various bits of evidence there as well..

theres loads of patmcquad related dot coms available fairly cheap

mcquadisa****.com is only $10

 

[Anonymous]

other option is set it up as an online petition with all the info on. and then put the petition link out through twitter/facebook

edit: this might actually be a good idea

 

[Cozy Beehive]

As you say -real Cycling fans unite!

Maybe someone could start a 'facebook' page..... or even highlight this thread on Twitter? Because the more I look at this the worse it gets.

Better still. I'll help you. Its going on my blog. I get 1000 readers a day. With this whole doping drama, I'll bet it'll shoot up. Let's get the word out. That's important.

 

[thehog]

Better still. I'll help you. Its going on my blog. I get 1000 readers a day. With this whole doping drama, I'll bet it'll shoot up. Let's get the word out. That's important.

The UCI needs donations.

Read on. The things I know.

To fund an all expenses paid apartment for Mcquaid and 5 lawyers. Yes 5 lawyers. It’s not a wealthy organization. Who we kidding here.

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Before his election, McQuaid fell out with Sylvia Schenk _ a member of the UCI's management committee _ who believed McQuaid was living off an expense account sanctioned by Verbruggen.

McQuaid joined the UCI's management committee in 1997 and six years later was nominated to take over from Verbruggen.
At the UCI Congress in Madrid on Sept. 23, 2005, 42 voting delegates gave him a 31-11 majority over challengers Darshan Singh and Gregorio Moreno.

McQuaid heads a 14-man committee that meets each January, June and September. For legal decisions, he depends on a team of five lawyers.
«In my 2œ years on the board, there has never been a vote, everybody's agreed by consensus,» McQuaid said. «When it gets down to legal decisions it's the lawyers here that would advise me.
He sums up his role as being the «executive who presides over the running of day-to-day business.
But to some observers it is still Verbruggen _ president from 1991-2005 _ who does that.

 

[Cozy Beehive]

Done. Let everyone read it. http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2010/05/open-letter-to-uci-president-pat.html

 

[online-rider]

McQuaid .......... He's spinning around so fast he should be wearing gold hotpants (sorry for visiting that image on y'all )

ahahhaa- makes me think of father ted

 

[tubularglue]

I am wondering what Pat did with the extra 400,00 dollars sylvia had "knowledge of"

 

[Cozy Beehive]

An interesting comment on the "Play the game conference" website linked by Dr. Maserati.

"I have some Cycling Monthly mags from 1984/85 that contain articles by a David Walsh that seem to me to excuse doping and to suggest that positive tests are mistakes. Is this the same David Walsh who is now the caped crusader against Armstrong and others?"

Can anyone confirm this?

 

[2beacoup]

Why not post it here: http://www.petitiononline.com/?

 

[2beacoup]

Maybe we can make a deal with CN: When let's say 5000 people have signed they'll report about it.

 

[Dr. Maserati]

An interesting comment on the "Play the game conference" website linked by Dr. Maserati.

"I have some Cycling Monthly mags from 1984/85 that contain articles by a David Walsh that seem to me to excuse doping and to suggest that positive tests are mistakes. Is this the same David Walsh who is now the caped crusader against Armstrong and others?"

Can anyone confirm this?

Ah, it was in the comments section - I was wondering who would say that.

I don't know the article - but I would bet it has to do with Sean Kellys positive for the banned drug Stimul after the Paris-Brussels Classic in 1984.

It seemed an unusual drug to get caught for as it had little PED advantage - but it was explained in Wily Voets book that the sample was not Kellys..... but a wiling mechanics, who had taken the drug to keep awake for a lengthly drive!

Interesting that the comment is made by someone called - 'Greenjersey'.

 

[RhodriM]

Just reading CN's live text of today's Giro:

Daniel Friebe from Procycling:

I was astonished to hear Pat McQuaid hail him as a "clean rider" yesterday. How can McQuaid take such a risk. I believe there is evidence to suggest Basso's performances have waned in line with what you'd hope/expect from a rider coming off a doping ban, but to publicly pronounce him or any other rider as "clean" is very unwise on the part of the UCI president. We frankly don't need or want McQuaid making those statements. He's got other more pressing matters on his plate, Floyd Landis's allegations being one of them.

DF: I seem to recall the UCI hailing Basso as a "model rider" prior to Operacion Puerto. I repeat - they should refrain from making such claims about any rider.

DF: Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe they think that's what the public wants to hear. But how comforting are those statements, when we know from past experience that riders have cheated and never tested positive. Just yesterday, there was an article in the New York Times about how EPO micro-dosing might not show up on the biological passport.

DF: One last point: how fair is it for the UCI to publicly single out a rider as "clean"? What does that say about the others, most of whom have never broken the rules, unlike Ivan Basso? They can feel justifiably aggrieved.

Fair enough.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

Sorry but that is nonsense from Daniel Friebe (who was claiming the other day that cycling was cleaner btw).

If we shouldn't declare Basso to be clean, then we shouldn't declare any rider as being clean.

Good to see some criticism of the UCI but the hacks themselves need to take some time to do a little self-reflecting.

 

[RhodriM]

If we shouldn't declare Basso to be clean, then we shouldn't declare any rider as being clean.

Isn't that what he's saying?

It's not about 'we' either, it's about the UCI; and IMO he's right - they especially probably shouldn't single out a particular rider as 'clean'.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

He seems to be objecting more to Basso being singled out than the practice of singling out specific riders as being clean.

To me it is like the practice of declaring that the sport is getting cleaner which Friebe did in the CN coverage a couple of days ago. Something which is clearly untrue and only serves to hold the speaker hostage to fortune.

I don't think Friebe has a leg to stand on given what he said about two days ago. Unless of course he's seen which way the wind is blowing and has changed his tune accordingly. At best he is vacillating, at worst he is a hypocrite.

 

[Digger]

In relation to David Walsh, a few things happened AFTER those comments. Kimmage became his friend and colleague, Michelle Smith, Festina and a file on Conconi's doping revealing Roche;s name. Also, I believe that David Walsh's son dying tragically had a huge impact on his future writings - searching for the truth, however unpopular it may be to alot of people.

Pat said that the 'donation' was given in 2002 when there were no doping rumours or accusations about Lance.
Well in 2001 David Walsh wrote the infamous article on Lance's relationship with Ferrari. Lance and Walsh had numerous exhanges including an interview in 2001 on htis issue.
In 2001, Greg Lemond was questioned where he gave the comments which caused the sh** to hit the fan.
In 1999, after he tested positive for corticoids, Lance said in a press conference, when questioned by Le monde about doping, 'are you calling me a liar or a doper?'
So Pat, is this you rewriting history again?

 

[Dr. Maserati]

More rewriting of history here......(and our favourite lie)

(21:35) In this interview earlier this year.

Well, I mean when you talk about poor old Lance, ah, ah, certainly in 1999 the French raised questions about whether he used EPO in 1999 or not, when there was no test for EPO, am from 2000 right through til 2005 his last Tour de France he was tested the same as every other athlete, he is the most tested athlete in the world and he is..he is negative all the time so I think that speaks for itself.

Pat must not have read the Vrijman report about how the samples were retested in EPO - when there was test.