Cookson is worse for cycling than McQuaid

[Benotti69]

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Really calls into question UKAD and how they handle homegrown doping.......Cookson failed big time with that statement.

Yes it does. And yes he did. But since when exactly has the UCI shown itself to be interested in doing anything but sweeping problems under the carpet?

Never, but Cookson made a big show and dance in his Pres campaign that he was a new dawn...but as we see a false dawn.

 

[kwikki]

Yeah but it beats landscape gardening

 

[Benotti69]

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Yeah but it beats landscape gardening

I wouldn't trust the guy to cut the grass.

But yep Cookson another Federation president interested in his own 'betterment' rather than the sport itself or in fair play.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Cookson taking care of business.

http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1036178/uci-sign-eight-year-broadcasting-rights-deal-with-ebu-and-img

The only question left is what offshore account was used to "encourage" Cookson to sign the deal.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Did you guys see this?
http://www.uci.ch/cyclingforall/velothon-majors/

Check out the requirements. http://www.velothon-majors.com/en/for-host-cities/host-city-requirements/essential-criteria/

Financial / value-in-kind support is depending on the organisational model and given circumstances in the respective city/country

Show me the money!!

 

[thehog]

Cookson might actually do something now a Sky rider has been hit...

Elia Viviani is in hospital after being hit by a moto in the Arenberg says Sky DS Servais Knaven.

 

[thehog]

Cookson might actually do something now a Sky rider has been hit...

Elia Viviani is in hospital after being hit by a moto in the Arenberg says Sky DS Servais Knaven.

Video of crash here, Trek rider gives moto an earful;

https://twitter.com/r8uge/status/719201206262964225

 

[Irondan]

Cookson might actually do something now a Sky rider has been hit...

Elia Viviani is in hospital after being hit by a moto in the Arenberg says Sky DS Servais Knaven.

Video of crash here, Trek rider gives moto an earful;

https://twitter.com/r8uge/status/719201206262964225

That was just irresponsible...

 

[thehog]

Cookson might actually do something now a Sky rider has been hit...

Elia Viviani is in hospital after being hit by a moto in the Arenberg says Sky DS Servais Knaven.

Video of crash here, Trek rider gives moto an earful;

https://twitter.com/r8uge/status/719201206262964225

That was just irresponsible...

It's a complex issue

 

[thehog]

Instead, the solution has to come from the top, in cycling’s case the UCI. Brian Cookson was president of British Cycling throughout my career and nearly £77,000 of public money was spent on a PR campaign by UK Sport supporting his successful 2013 bid for presidency of the UCI. He had a manifesto pledge that within one year of his coming to office, there would be a minimum wage for women cyclists as there is for men. His advising “action” committee, packed with individuals whose business model only works when the majority of women team riders do not receive the minimum wage, were never going to “advise” him that it was practical; turkeys do not vote for Christmas. Three years later that minimum wage for women to match men riders remains as illusory as it was in 2012.

Cookson and UK Sport have to be held to account and the best people to do this are the sponsors. Professional sport only exists because of sponsors whose customers do not want to see discrimination. Sponsors can demand that organisations actually comply with their own policies on gender equality. When I won the world road race championships, Sky sponsored a men-only team. I never received a penny, but I still had to wear the logo. Was Sky aware of the inequality of the distribution of its funds to the sport? I am confident that it was not.

Opening up right now are big opportunities for women’s sport and its sponsors. This is the time to address some of those issues that have remained hidden or ignored for decades. I didn’t win at London 2012 but time and again during those Olympics, as I travelled around the capital on Tube or bus, I was so moved with the kind words of so many to me recalling my win of four years earlier. The people of this country could not have been clearer; the old, the young, the slow, the quick, they valued the exploits of their daughters every bit as much as those of their sons. They, every one of them, did not discriminate. Now is the time to drive discrimination from the establishment of sport.

Nicole Cooke on Cookson, no fat asses here... Brian dropping the ball again

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/25/nicole-cooke-cycling-sexism-jess-varnish-shane-sutton?CMP=share_btn_tw

No doubt Brian will attempt to sue and shut down her Twitter account.

 

[The Carrot]

Nicole Cooke is an articulate and intelligent lady. This is the kind of person we should have fronting our sport. Won't happen though (see article in the hog's post above for details).

 

[Benotti69]

In 2014 according to WADA there were 168 ADRVs (Anti-Doping Rule Violations) in cycling and only 21 made it to the UCI pdf!!!!

Transparency, Cookson doesn't know the meaning of the word.

 

[thehog]

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In 2014 according to WADA there were 168 ADRVs (Anti-Doping Rule Violations) in cycling and only 21 made it to the UCI pdf!!!!

Transparency, Cookson doesn't know the meaning of the word.

Not a mention Cookson setting up the sexist, discriminatory British Cycling.

 

[fmk_RoI]

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In 2014 according to WADA there were 168 ADRVs (Anti-Doping Rule Violations) in cycling and only 21 made it to the UCI pdf!!!!

How many times do you have to be told to read the damned PDF on the UCI site? It clearly states it does not include all doping violations, only those dealt with by UCI, and certain other cases.

This table lists the license-holders currently serving a period of ineligibility as a consequence of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation, over which the UCI has results management authority. The sanctions imposed by other anti-doping organisations are not included in this list, unless such sanctions have been expressly recognised by the UCI Anti-Doping Commission.

You and others keep trying to use this as proof of a cover-up in the UCI when all it is really proof of is that people don't actually read half the things they complain so loudly about.

 

[Freddythefrog]

So where do we go to get a full list of the UCI racing license holders currently serving bans or with AAFs pending decision ? Do we have transparency ? The brother in the epo using, motorbike riding, parakeet stealing, family had his positive notified in some newsletter.

 

[Benotti69]

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In 2014 according to WADA there were 168 ADRVs (Anti-Doping Rule Violations) in cycling and only 21 made it to the UCI pdf!!!!

How many times do you have to be told to read the damned PDF on the UCI site? It clearly states it does not include all doping violations, only those dealt with by UCI, and certain other cases.

This table lists the license-holders currently serving a period of ineligibility as a consequence of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation, over which the UCI has results management authority. The sanctions imposed by other anti-doping organisations are not included in this list, unless such sanctions have been expressly recognised by the UCI Anti-Doping Commission.

You and others keep trying to use this as proof of a cover-up in the UCI when all it is really proof of is that people don't actually read half the things they complain so loudly about.

So WADA can list ADRVs that are not UCI licence holders?

Femke's brother was suspended from racing and as a UCI licence holder his ban was not on any UCI document, but found in a local Belgian newsletter.

"...unless such sanctions have been expressly recognised by the UCI ..."

Bet that generates loads of revenue for a select few.

 

[Freddythefrog]

So no one can tell us. I assume, and I have looked quite hard, that nowhere is there a definitive list of UCI racing license holders who currently have their licenses suspended due to PED violations.

Therefore, I assume that this is yet another Cookson manifesto pledge that went in the bin as soon as he took office.

I am happy to be corrected but I want to see evidence.

 

[Benotti69]

Cookson is too busy with the dopers and enablers of the sport to be think about ADRVs

https://twitter.com/Digger_forum/status/727073641725304834

 

[sniper]

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Cookson is too busy with the dopers and enablers of the sport to be think about ADRVs

https://twitter.com/Digger_forum/status/727073641725304834

Pat McQuaid trolled alright.
But I don't remember him trolling that hard.

 

[thehog]

Cookie throwing everyone under the bus bar himself....

http://road.cc/content/news/188285-cookson-surprised-brailsford-silence-british-cycling-issues

 

[Benotti69]

here's one for Fmk

According to WADA there were 32 UCI license-holders w/ Anti-Doping Rule Violations in 2014.

Only 21 names were added to the Anti-Doping Rule Violations pdf

http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/CleanSport/17/32/52/20160428SanctionsADRVEN2.0_English.pdf

11 riders are missing!

Cookson showing his huge dedication to transparency. About the same level as Vaughters.

 

[fmk_RoI]

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here's one for Fmk.

Excuse me while I yawn.

 

[thehog]

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here's one for Fmk.

Excuse me while I yawn.

Generally it's considered polite to excuse yourself after you yawn not prior.

 

[sniper]

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here's one for Fmk

According to WADA there were 32 UCI license-holders w/ Anti-Doping Rule Violations in 2014.

Only 21 names were added to the Anti-Doping Rule Violations pdf

http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/CleanSport/17/32/52/20160428SanctionsADRVEN2.0_English.pdf

11 riders are missing!

Cookson showing his huge dedication to transparency. About the same level as Vaughters.

Positive tests imo should be publicized if only to deter PED use.
I wonder what UCI's reasoning is to not publicize all.

 

[thehog]

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To be fair to Cookson, he deserves a chance. He hasn't had enough time to really prove himself yet. They did already say they're going to install a new TUE policy as well.

The fact is, most of us have no clue what was really going on behind the scenes and who everyone is that was involved. To expect Cookson to be able to come in and clean out all the bugs of a super infested house straight away is a tall order. It'll take some time.

I'm not saying the conspiracy theories aren't valid and that I don't agree with some of them. But I'm not ready to throw Cookson out just yet.

Can we throw him out now?