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gooner said:I'm following it on twitter all morning and it's like a circus over there. Between amendments and proposals they don't know what they are voting on from one minute to the next. Embarassing to the sport.
heart_attack_man said:How are you following? Any specific hashtag? Or just UCI election?
BroDeal said:Is not McQuaid taking the position that his interpretation of the current rules allow him to run even without the proposed rule changes?
Let the post election lawsuits commence in three, two, one...
King Boonen said:I read somewhere that it should all be over by 1pm.
gooner said:A number of journalists on twitter are at it. They are giving updates.
https://twitter.com/SSbike
https://twitter.com/ben_rumsby
https://twitter.com/owenslot
https://twitter.com/ChristianRad
https://twitter.com/nealrogers
https://twitter.com/gregorbrown
Robert21 said:McQuaid must be relishing every moment of this. He has spent years trying to undermine the power of what he sees as being the 'mafia European nations', especially the French who he genuinely seems to hate. (Which is one reason he played along with Armstrong's distasteful French bashing.) One major tactic McQuaid has employed is to buy the loyalty of those nations without a tradition of cycling with funds for 'development. Ironically enough the UCI has bled this money from the very nations whose influence McQuaid is determined to undermine. If he wins, which he may well do, in his mind it will be, above all, a big 'told you so' to the traditional cycling nations that he, not they, run cycling.
If he does win I hope that every 'mafia European nation' will have the guts to break away from the UCI with immediate effect.
Morbius said:No retrospective decision today. 21:21 split
Good for Cookson
Benotti69 said:If Crookson wins we get anglo saxons winning in July for foreseeable future with a Russian every few years.......
Crookson less of a clown but I dont see a cleaner sport on the horizon.
Taking money from the priviliged elite to bribe the less fortunate parts of the electorate is standard democratic politics. I believe it's called Socialism.Robert21 said:McQuaid must be relishing every moment of this. He has spent years trying to undermine the power of what he sees as being the 'mafia European nations', especially the French who he genuinely seems to hate. (Which is one reason he played along with Armstrong's distasteful French bashing.) One major tactic McQuaid has employed is to buy the loyalty of those nations without a tradition of cycling with funds for 'development. Ironically enough the UCI has bled this money from the very nations whose influence McQuaid is determined to undermine. If he wins, which he may well do, in his mind it will be, above all, a big 'told you so' to the traditional cycling nations that he, not they, run cycling.
Benotti69 said:The 'EU mafia nations' wont change cycling for the better. They wont stop the doping.
the pro sport is never gonna be more than it currently is lurching like a drunk from doping scandal to doping scandal......
Parker said:Taking money from the priviliged elite to bribe the less fortunate parts of the electorate is standard democratic politics. I believe it's called Socialism.
So, only three hours to wait until the next update!el chava said:lunch has started