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mrhender said:He does not present himself or his organazation very well in that interview.
Where is the dialogue? The embracing of fans?
The transparency mantra is also as good as dead...
Instead he has resorted to bullying and mocking/generalising concerned fans...
All while centralizing all power within the UCI and it's independent branches
He displays that there is no middle-ground...
No discussion, and no information....
it is the Cookson way or the highway.....
Perhaps David Walsh will write a simialr book like he did in 09? About Cookson selling cycling?
AS: They also say it's time for the Tour, so obviously it's time for another book by you guys. It's just another...you'll never stop as long as there's money to be made by tearing down the sport.
DW: Well, (laughs) I would love if we'd been able to tear down the sport, because the sport needed to be torn down. When I talk about the sport, I'm just talking about professional cycling. It NEEDED to be torn down. And sadly, there weren't too many people out there with journalistic responsibilities who were prepared to do it.
As for the money making bit, I've made virtually nothing from all of this, I'm sure if you spoke to my accountant I'm sure he'd tell you it's actually cost me money. The money doesn't interest me, never has it interested me. Andy, you're talking to me now in a South African hotel, we're speaking on my mobile phone because there isn't a phone in my room. I don't care about that stuff, I never have. I don't fly business class, I don't wish to fly business class. I don't have an expense account, I don't wish to have an expense account. So money has always been a complete irrelevance for me here. And this book, it will have cost us as much to do it as we will earn from it. So what. That's not what it's about.
And the people who say that make me laugh, because we are investigating people who might well be committing fraud to earn millions of dollars, and we operate at the very least in the few thousand dollars, and we're the ones who are considered the mercenaries. How absurd is that?
http://nyvelocity.com/content/interviews/2009/david-walsh