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Benotti69 said:Not sure how you figure that when Cookson was bribing the Greeks with 25grand!!!!!!
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Well done to the Irish guys like Conor McGrane and Anto Moran who took a difficult stand.
B_Ugli said:Now lets see who Paddy is going to take down with him - he sure as hell isn't going quietly.
Captain Sensible said:I'm shocked that Pat lost , I wonder what he will be ploting now carnt see him being a good loser and going away quietly .
TheEnoculator said:I wonder if Pat will spill the beans on Hein now that he's out of a job.
"It's a huge honour to be voted president and I thank you for your trust. The real work starts now. I call on the global community to unite so that the sport lives up to its potential. We must have a new style of government and a collegiate system. My first act as president is to ensure anti-doping is fully independent and to sit down with WADA," Cookson said.
"It is a huge honour to have been elected President of the UCI by my peers and I would like to thank them for the trust they have placed in me today."
"The campaign to get to this point has been intense but I am under no illusion that the real work starts now. So I call on the global cycling community to unite and come together to help ensure that our great sport realises its enormous potential. This is the vision that will drive and focus my activities over the next four years.
“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."
AcademyCC said:If Cookson is for real i suspect he is about to find a whole graveyard of skeletons in Aigle.
Benotti69 said:Let's hope that is the end of the McQuaid family involvement in cycling!
B_Ugli said:The first thing he should do IMO to restore some credibility is to move the UCI headquarters outside of Switzerland to a less "protected" country.
Afrank said:Don't know if Cookson will be a good president (hopefully he is), will have to wait and see what he does.
But hallelujah! McQuaid is gone! Now please do what you said you would do Pat, walk away and leave cycling forever.
Von Mises said:Thats one of the things he should not do and definitely should not do this as first thing.
gooner said:That won't happen. This won't effect Andrew McQuaid representing Roche, Deignan, Stannard, Phinney and many other cyclists in the future.