To the bolded, Verbruggen and McQuaid were the last federation to sign onto the WADA standard or else the sport would not be present at some Summer games. They fought the whole thing, all the way. "Is the UCI going to sign the WADA standard?" was a real story at the time.
Verbruggen fought WADA. McQ, to be fair to you, was unfathomably loyal; I don't understand. McQ introduced Bio Passport, didn't fight whereabouts.
What watch list of riders was leaked by McQuaid?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ucis-suspicious-list-leaked-from-2010-tour-de-france This is interesting reading, for all sorts of reasons, in hindsight.
No. The main shortcoming of the bio-passport is the federation not sanctioning positives. There's no rule against it, and there's no transparency, so the integrity of the sport is permanently questionable.
I believe the Passport was meant as a targeting tool, not a pass or fail test in it's own right. Calls for transparency are, just like with your National government, a little unrealistic.
Micro dosing is an issue, but there is so little confidence there is any "sport" in elite cycling, it's buried in a long list of integrity related issues.
This is a common cry, but only because the sport made an attempt (under McQ) to catch cheats and clean things up. Just compare it to America's top 3, football, rugby, track and field, etc. Cycling looks pretty good in that light.
McQuaid's legacy is intact in so many published personal attacks and patently false claims on a wide number of issues there is no rehabilitating his image.
Yes, a PR problem. Not exactly a world class politician. But, stand him next to Blatter, Mosley, etc. and he looks slightly amateurish, but pretty clean. Foot in his mouth honest. Look at the list of McQ allies that were fired when Cooky cleaned house, does that list look like a bunch of doping sympathizers? I wonder why he got rid of them?
Cookson came off polished initially, now he just looks like a clown of a puppet.
I could care less about his image, I care about what he accomplished.