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Hein knows how to change cycling: http://theouterline.com/?p=527
I lost the contents of my stomach pretty quickly.
I lost the contents of my stomach pretty quickly.
Q. Do you have any regrets about how the sport was managed under your leadership? What would you do differently?
Of course I have some regrets. It is always easier to see the right solution in hindsight. What would I have done differently? I would have better sold the organizers on the Pro Tour idea, but I should have done that differently. I should have had a better plan to organize a license system for the teams, like F1. The ASO promised to support the Pro Tour – I went for it, but maybe too fast. Then they reneged on me – I under-estimated the opposition of the Tour de France. That was a mistake.
Even when I first came to the FICP, I saw the big potential for cycling, and I think cycling is realizing a lot of that potential. Cycling needs a strong ruling agency in the UCI; otherwise it just turns into chaos. I know I have been accused of being a dictator, even though I always delegated things to many other people. But with its structure, its many different and often uncoordinated parties, and all of the other challenges in cycling, the sport needs a very strong and forceful leader. Maybe cycling needs a dictator.
ChewbaccaD said:Hein knows how to change cycling: http://theouterline.com/?p=527
I lost the contents of my stomach pretty quickly.