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Fearless Greg Lemond said:They weren't that bad imho.
Too bad they didnt let Mart Smeets do it
It was not bad for prime time national teevee, that is what I am saying.sniper said:you've got low standards if you call Dione de Graaf "not bad".
not bad to look at, sure.
That interview was a PR victory for Hein. He's way too clever for journalists like these.
sniper said:you've got low standards if you call Dione de Graaf "not bad".
not bad to look at, sure.
That interview was a PR victory for Hein. He's way too clever for journalists like these.
Lanark said:I agree. He ran circles around those two clowns. Someone who doesn't know a lot about cycling probably thought that Verbruggen was an honest and decent guy, who just had the bad luck to preside over cycling during a dark period, despite his best intentions to change the sport for the better.
They could barely make the bribes that the UCI received from Armstrong stick. You have to be a really bad interviewer to manage that.
Fearless Greg Lemond said:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojyMNOpmlBU
* doping is because of gambling -Gambling is not a cause, but a catalyst and takes advantage of a broken system
* UCI ranking stopped the selling of races - Huh?
* doping controls do not work - Unless UCI controls the resultss of the doping controls
* WADA is BS - UCI is BS, and Nein is full of it
* UCI did the most on anti - dope of all sports [repeats this about 300000 times] - UCI created two systems that provided structural facilitation of doping; 50% HCT Test and the BP while refusing to sign the WADA code
* Armstrong was not his friend - Right, and they weren't going to buy the Tou together either
* no positive in Switzerland - Switzerland, where is Switzerland?
* cycling is much cleaner now - You just have to clean the lint off your glasses and you will see it is much cleaner
* Armstrong was never suspect, he only had doubts - Doubts that they could forever make the positives disappear
* Armstrong 222 times controlled - That plus USADA's numbers puts the total at still < 1/2 Armstrong's claims
* AFLD always controlled Armstrong in the Tour, not UCI - TOTAL BULLCRAP
* the money for the blood testing machine was not the first donation - The Credit institute of Lance Armstong is a great place to get money
* some journalists [Walsh] are conspiracy nuts - Some in the UCI leadership [Phat and Nein] are completely corrupt
Especially loved his body language.
Je vous merci.D-Queued said:Annotated.
Dave.
Tinman said:a ... disillusioned fan base...
during the Paris bid for the 2008 Games, IOC members, including the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) Hein Verbruggen, pressured the French government of Socialist Lionel Jospin to commit itself not to apply the French anti-doping law if the Parisian capital ended up being the Olympic host.
Race Radio said:
Briant_Gumble said:Very surprised to hear that the press would try to pressure the government.
frenchfry said:
Race Radio said:http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/arch...eson-und-pflichtgefuehl,10810590,9902382.html
It is disturbing that Verbruggen's attempts obstruct the testing has been known for over a decade
D-Queued said:More recently, the NHL pressured the Turino Olympic committee to suspend / avoid Italy's sport fraud laws during the 2006 Games. This is well documented, and I am not going to bother citing sources.
The point being is that as bad as this is for cycling, they are not alone.
Moreover, that this was done after a successful bid - when there should have been less pressure to comply - and not, as in Hein's case, before the IOC's decision on which location would have the winning bid.
Clearly France did not win any summer Olympic bid. Not even after providing Hein with these assurances.
Dave.
D-Queued said:More recently, the NHL pressured the Turino Olympic committee to suspend / avoid Italy's sport fraud laws during the 2006 Games. This is well documented, and I am not going to bother citing sources.
The point being is that as bad as this is for cycling, they are not alone.
Moreover, that this was done after a successful bid - when there should have been less pressure to comply - and not, as in Hein's case, before the IOC's decision on which location would have the winning bid.
Clearly France did not win any summer Olympic bid. Not even after providing Hein with these assurances.
Dave.
Cobblestones said:It, of course, begs the question what was arranged to secure the winning bid.