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Cookson is worse for cycling than McQuaid

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MarkvW said:
The rest of the sporting world is reeling from huge doping scandals, but cycling remains relatively clean.

Go Brian Cookson! You're doing a heck of a job!

Ahh - that's because cyclists (or their entourage/team) read their emails about upcoming changes to the prohibited list. Something that Tennis players seem to be too busy to do ...
 
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TheSpud said:
MarkvW said:
The rest of the sporting world is reeling from huge doping scandals, but cycling remains relatively clean.

Go Brian Cookson! You're doing a heck of a job!

Ahh - that's because cyclists (or their entourage/team) read their emails about upcoming changes to the prohibited list. Something that Tennis players seem to be too busy to do ...


There are no emails.

Both the UCI and ITF use the ADAMS system, which would provide the updated listed. This is what Sharapova indicated that she had to “log into a system”. ITF whereabouts is entered quarterly.

Every year the prohibited list is announced in October, comes into effect January 1st.
 
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thehog said:
TheSpud said:
MarkvW said:
The rest of the sporting world is reeling from huge doping scandals, but cycling remains relatively clean.

Go Brian Cookson! You're doing a heck of a job!

Ahh - that's because cyclists (or their entourage/team) read their emails about upcoming changes to the prohibited list. Something that Tennis players seem to be too busy to do ...


There are no emails.

Both the UCI and ITF use the ADAMS system, which would provide the updated listed. This is what Sharapova indicated that she had to “log into a system”. ITF whereabouts is entered quarterly.

Every year the prohibited list is announced in October, comes into effect January 1st.

Shara (or her entourage) were too lazy to log in then ...
 
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TheSpud said:
thehog said:
TheSpud said:
MarkvW said:
The rest of the sporting world is reeling from huge doping scandals, but cycling remains relatively clean.

Go Brian Cookson! You're doing a heck of a job!

Ahh - that's because cyclists (or their entourage/team) read their emails about upcoming changes to the prohibited list. Something that Tennis players seem to be too busy to do ...


There are no emails.

Both the UCI and ITF use the ADAMS system, which would provide the updated listed. This is what Sharapova indicated that she had to “log into a system”. ITF whereabouts is entered quarterly.

Every year the prohibited list is announced in October, comes into effect January 1st.

Shara (or her entourage) were too lazy to log in then ...

There is an ADAMS iPhone app along with prohibited list. You have to log in to update your whereabouts so odd that she didn't.

Emails is old school. Maybe they need a Snapchat version.
 
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I think this is a very good comment

The P in PED@vayerism
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I love it when people try to "figure it out" it's very simple. Sport can't be fixed. Because, it isn't broken. Its operating as designed.

....it isn't broken. It's operating as designed.

Cookson is not fixing the doping in the sport, because it is part of the sport.
 
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At least McQuaid didn't take selfies...
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Not sure McQuaid has the intelligence to work a mobile phone to take a selfie!
Maybe he is too Phat for a selfie to work.

I wonder if some of you forget just how bad McQuaid and Verdruggen were to have around.
 
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frenchfry said:
Benotti69 said:
fmk_RoI said:
At least McQuaid didn't take selfies...
P2365338D2127811G_px_640_.jpg

Not sure McQuaid has the intelligence to work a mobile phone to take a selfie!
Maybe he is too Phat for a selfie to work.

I wonder if some of you forget just how bad McQuaid and Verdruggen were to have around.

That's right. Verdruggem was as corrupt and crooked as they come, and McQuaid was his perfect stooge, with an IQ that was inversely proportional to his stratospheric salary, and no ethics whatsoever. (Remember, this was the guy who assumed a false identity so that he circumvent the anti-apartheid boycott against South Africa.)

I'm not ready to give up on Cookson. We can assume the worst about him by virtue of his position. That seems fair enough. Facing such assumptions is part of what he gets paid for. But that doesn't mean he won't be responsive to pressure from the fan base. The administration of a sport is only as good as the informed fans of the sport. It's up to us to make our voices heard.
 
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I'm not ready to give up on Cookson.
If you look at how he's favored Sky over the past years, there's not much reason left to believe in him.
Under Cookson, Sky have carte blanche.

But that doesn't mean he won't be responsive to pressure from the fan base.
There has been qiuite a bit of pressure for reformation in the wake of the USADA report. It's why Cookson was forced to make all these uncomfortable antidoping promises in the first place. Those promises have turned out to be hollow. He still squeals that CADF is independent, but the reality is that the CADF office is next to his own office.

Then you look at other things, his son working for Sky, Cookson failing to find that a conflict of interest, Cookson sticking to Zorzoli, sticking to the Lausanne Lab and Saugy, not addressing motorization, no retesting of older samples, selfies with Merckx the Legend. etc.
 
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sniper said:
Maxiton said:
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I'm not ready to give up on Cookson.
If you look at how he's favored Sky over the past years, there's not much reason left to believe in him.
Under Cookson, Sky have carte blanche.

But that doesn't mean he won't be responsive to pressure from the fan base.
There has been qiuite a bit of pressure for reformation in the wake of the USADA report. It's why Cookson was forced to make all these uncomfortable antidoping promises in the first place. Those promises have turned out to be hollow. He still squeals that CADF is independent, but the reality is that the CADF office is next to his own office.

Then you look at other things, his son working for Sky, Cookson failing to find that a conflict of interest, Cookson sticking to Zorzoli, sticking to the Lausanne Lab and Saugy, not addressing motorization, no retesting of older samples, selfies with Merckx the Legend. etc.

Well, Cookson appeared to ignore the entire report. There was a lot of detail on cortisone and how some riders could get so skinny and not lose power. Cookson ignored all of that and the show carried on.
 
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Well, Cookson appeared to ignore the entire report. There was a lot of detail on cortisone and how some riders could get so skinny and not lose power. Cookson ignored all of that and the show carried on.
Indeed, and there was the Leinders stuff, Zorzoli, Lausanne, Saugy, Julich, Motoman, Yates. They all said hi in that report.
It was a unique window of opportunity to make real changes and break through the omerta.
But Cookson did zilch. Cookson was the wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
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sniper said:
thehog said:
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Well, Cookson appeared to ignore the entire report. There was a lot of detail on cortisone and how some riders could get so skinny and not lose power. Cookson ignored all of that and the show carried on.
Indeed, and there was the Leinders stuff, Zorzoli, Lausanne, Saugy, Julich, Motoman, Yates. They all said hi in that report.
It was a unique window of opportunity to make real changes and break through the omerta.
But Cookson did zilch. Cookson was the wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Cookson has provided the Federations with full Verbruggen without the stupidity of McQuaid. From the point of view of the Federations, he has been an outstanding leader. I'd be very surprised if he had any opposition to a second term. Maybe he doesn't even have to bribe anybody...
 
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MarkvW said:
sniper said:
thehog said:
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Well, Cookson appeared to ignore the entire report. There was a lot of detail on cortisone and how some riders could get so skinny and not lose power. Cookson ignored all of that and the show carried on.
Indeed, and there was the Leinders stuff, Zorzoli, Lausanne, Saugy, Julich, Motoman, Yates. They all said hi in that report.
It was a unique window of opportunity to make real changes and break through the omerta.
But Cookson did zilch. Cookson was the wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Cookson has provided the Federations with full Verbruggen without the stupidity of McQuaid. From the point of view of the Federations, he has been an outstanding leader. I'd be very surprised if he had any opposition to a second term. Maybe he doesn't even have to bribe anybody...


I tend to agree, he is more of a federal pleaser than anything else. Source say that the non-elected Gibbs is really running the show at the UCI.

Sources also say Cookson, and his right-hand man, former campaign manager and now UCI director general, Martin Gibbs, are cleaning house, forcing out many former Pat McQuaid-Hein Verbruggen loyalists. Cookson’s decision to shut down GCP, created during the McQuaid era, came only after they botched a deal to extend the Tour of Beijing with Chinese officials, one source said. The same source said the UCI “is not a pleasant place to work,” and accused Cookson and Gibbs of “very good PR, but very little substance.”


http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/12/news/road/promises-promises-brian-cookson-track_355886#mRqxfdp4Ew1FPwTu.99
 
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thehog said:
MarkvW said:
sniper said:
thehog said:
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Well, Cookson appeared to ignore the entire report. There was a lot of detail on cortisone and how some riders could get so skinny and not lose power. Cookson ignored all of that and the show carried on.
Indeed, and there was the Leinders stuff, Zorzoli, Lausanne, Saugy, Julich, Motoman, Yates. They all said hi in that report.
It was a unique window of opportunity to make real changes and break through the omerta.
But Cookson did zilch. Cookson was the wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Cookson has provided the Federations with full Verbruggen without the stupidity of McQuaid. From the point of view of the Federations, he has been an outstanding leader. I'd be very surprised if he had any opposition to a second term. Maybe he doesn't even have to bribe anybody...


I tend to agree, he is more of a federal pleaser than anything else. Source say that the non-elected Gibbs is really running the show at the UCI.

Sources also say Cookson, and his right-hand man, former campaign manager and now UCI director general, Martin Gibbs, are cleaning house, forcing out many former Pat McQuaid-Hein Verbruggen loyalists. Cookson’s decision to shut down GCP, created during the McQuaid era, came only after they botched a deal to extend the Tour of Beijing with Chinese officials, one source said. The same source said the UCI “is not a pleasant place to work,” and accused Cookson and Gibbs of “very good PR, but very little substance.”

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/12/news/road/promises-promises-brian-cookson-track_355886#mRqxfdp4Ew1FPwTu.99

A little more to the Gibbs story:

The agency states that the committee has been putting pressure on UCI president Brian Cookson to sack the current director general Martin Gibbs.

It is thought that he has been behind the departure of a large number of former staff from the UCI. Sources previously told CyclingTips that there is a tense mood within the UCI, with some employees feeling under pressure.

One source claimed that Gibbs rather than Cookson has been making many of the major decisions since the latter took over as president in September 2013.


http://cyclingtips.com/2015/06/tour-de-france-organisers-aso-threaten-to-split-with-uci-over-calendar-reform-delays/
 
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Okay, you guys are clearly more familiar than I am with Cookson and his shenanigans, since I stopped following the sport some time ago. So I concede he is crap. All the more reason then to apply pressure from the fan base, which he will have to respond to if he wants to maintain the charade (to the extent it is maintained).
 
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sniper said:
there was the Leinders stuff, Zorzoli, Lausanne, Saugy, Julich, Motoman, Yates. They all said hi in that report.
It was a unique window of opportunity to make real changes and break through the omerta.
But Cookson did zilch. Cookson was the wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Cookson's reinstatement of Zorzoli, despite him being implicated by Rasmussen, being a willing accomplice of Armstrong (even defending him at the SCA trial) and so on, says all we need to know about Cookson and the UCI. In short, his main aim is still to 'do what is best for the sport', and if that means paying little more than lip service to eradicating doping, then so be it. So much for not only doing what is right, but being seen to do what is right.

Most of all, Cookson would never willing expose Sky to serious allegations of doping, as this would effectively burn down the whole of British cycling. The stakes are simply too high and Cookson has too much of a vested interest to ever allow this to happen although, once again, he would see his actions as, pragmatically, doing only what was 'in the interests of the sport'
 
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^good post, agreed.

@markVW, sure he might be the right man for the feds, i'm not in a position to dispute that. From an AD pov, he's a zero like his predecessors.
 
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thehog said:
sniper said:
^good post, agreed.

@markVW, sure he might be the right man for the feds, i'm not in a position to dispute that. From an AD pov, he's a zero like his predecessors.

This is one of favourites from the PR driven campaign manifesto... :rolleyes:

I have said throughout my campaign that we must embrace a new style of governance and a collegiate way of working so that a new era of growth and commercial success for the UCI and our sport can begin. My first priorities as president will be to make anti-doping procedures in cycling fully independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycling/brian-cookson-beats-pat-mcquaid-in-election-to-become-uci-president-but-not-before-a-morning-of-8844374.html
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
(that;s a double eyebrowraiser, for when a single eyebrowraiser doesn't suffice)
 
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thehog said:
Cookson just rode the back of th Lance storm, got into power and closed up shop so no one could see or hear anything. A very British way of doing things.

He also got into power with the aid of a substantial amount of 'graft' from UK Sport, who doubtless thought that it would be in their interests to have him (as with Coe in athletics) as a placeman.

Putting Brian Cookson in as the head of cycling was another project which cost £120,000, of which £77,000 came from UK Sport.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3334177/Why-did-UK-Sport-spend-tens-thousands-money-Lord-Sebastian-Coe-s-bid-IAAF-president.html
 
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Robert21 said:
thehog said:
Cookson just rode the back of th Lance storm, got into power and closed up shop so no one could see or hear anything. A very British way of doing things.

He also got into power with the aid of a substantial amount of 'graft' from UK Sport, who doubtless thought that it would be in their interests to have him (as with Coe in athletics) as a placeman.

Putting Brian Cookson in as the head of cycling was another project which cost £120,000, of which £77,000 came from UK Sport.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3334177/Why-did-UK-Sport-spend-tens-thousands-money-Lord-Sebastian-Coe-s-bid-IAAF-president.html
good observation.
the writing is on the wall as far as british sports is concerned.
 

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