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DirtyWorks said:I'm shocked to learn the IOC embraces doping!! Shocked!!
This link worked for me. http://www.lefigaro.fr/football/2013/03/20/02003-20130320ARTSPO00687-buffet-a-subi-des-pressions.php
Your link has the middle somehow truncated.
DirtyWorks said:Another old link, but perfectly breaks down Hein's arguments made in the last link.
http://www.omct.org/human-rights-defenders/urgent-interventions/2007/07/d18729/
China continues to carry out between 8,000 and 10,000 executions each year and the practice of torture remains widespread. In contravention of the prohibition on discrimination contained in Principle 5 of the Code of Ethics, the Chinese authorities violate the rights of ethnic minorities. <Cough!>Tibet!<Cough!>
Hein is a classy guy. Terrorists and drug lords aspire to be like Hein. Power. Money. And no governments chasing you down as public enemy number one. It doesn't get much better than that. Really.
Should Hein (maybe Pat's brother?) visit and comment that I was jealous, then they'd be right. But, I could never ever sleep peacefully again knowing that I've enable doping and among a host of human rights issues, validated an authoritarian sovereignty. Look the term up under tyranny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant Pay attention to the references to John Locke.
Growing cycling never looked so good.
rata de sentina said:One wonders at if there would ever come a time when hein and pat would be too much of a liability.
DirtyWorks said:Per my months-ago post, Hein left SportAccord and with Rogge leaving the IOC this year, Hein's influence at the IOC seems to be ending.
Now Hein seems to have retired from the UCI as well. That is, until the next interview he fatally contradicts himself.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/verbruggen-has-no-opinion-on-uci-presidential-contest
Interesting. He admits he's hired to "consult" on cycling events. No impropriety there. At all.
Given his position at the UCI is a lifetime appointment, he can check in any time he likes.
Benotti69 said:I guess his consultancy was accepting brown bags and moving them to one of his bank accounts. Specialised work.
DirtyWorks said:Hein's influence at the IOC seems to be ending.
that sounds aweful. That doesnt bode well for antidoping at all.Race Radio said:Unfortunately this is not the case. Craig Reedie who wilp thenew head of WADA, is Verbruggen's b
y and he is tight with several of the 6 running for IOC president.
He never goes away.....just like herpes
sniper said:that sounds aweful. My impression is that without Wada properly functioning, many of the positive developments in antidoping of the past year or so might turn out to have been futile.
I know this is the wrong thread, but whats your take on cookson? How 'independent' and how sincere do you think he is? Are he and reedie somehow connected?
Another thing, a couple of weeks back you were under the impression that we would have another candidate for uci president, from one of the traditional cycling countries. Did s/he pull back in the end?
thanks RR.
Race Radio said:I was under the impression there would be a French candidate, but he has backed out. At this point it is Pat vs. Cookson.....Most see that Cookson is a better option then Pat
The sport has suffered greatly from the chaos of the McQuaid/Verbruggen era. Even if we ignore the the doping issue Pat has spent the last 8 years fighting with the various stakeholders, riders, teams, organizers, USADA, etc. Cookson would bring much needed stability. I like his idea of outsourcing all testing to WADA. spending the testing money on testing instead of races promoted by Verbruggen is a good thing
Ultimately stability is what Cookson bring to the table. Once there is less chaos the sport will attract more investment....and that is normally a good thing.
Certainly Reedie and Cookson know each other, but I do not know how well then work together. Will check.....good question.
A key question I have is what will Cookson expose once he is in charge? Pat is fighting like a crazed dog to stay in power. There must be a reason.
Race Radio said:I like his idea of outsourcing all testing to WADA. spending the testing money on testing instead of races promoted by Verbruggen is a good thing
Race Radio said:Certainly Reedie and Cookson know each other, but I do not know how well then work together. Will check.....good question.
A key question I have is what will Cookson expose once he is in charge? Pat is fighting like a crazed dog to stay in power. There must be a reason.
DirtyWorks said:IMO, you have misunderstood what Cookson wants to do with anti-doping. His claims of "more independence" means to let some others do the daily work at the UCI, not cede power to WADA/NADOs. I hope I'm wrong.
I didn't know Reedie's background, thanks for that.
Pat doesn't want to go because the money is good! And I'm not talking about his UCI salary. We know UCI officials have side businesses related to their roles at the UCI. Makarov's hinting at a not-named licensing company holds the rights to "Tour of Russia."
As soon as Cookson moves in, it all gets swept away. "Cycling cannot look backwards."
"If elected president, I would rapidly establish a completely independent anti-doping unit, in co-operation with Wada.
"It will be managed and governed outside of the UCI so people can have absolute confidence in our sport."
Race Radio said:Unfortunately this is not the case. Craig Reedie, who will be the new head of WADA, is Verbruggen's boy and he is tight with several of the 6 running for IOC president.
He never goes away.....just like herpes
timbo25 said:i think the sponsor money is more powerful than everybody thinks, it doesn't really matter who is the chairman of the UCI, verbruggen\Mcquaid\Cookson, they are all pawns.
A nice political statement of Cookson, when i am in charge, blabla happens,
well we do know after you got elected, right?
Briant_Gumble said:If money was that powerful then USADA wouldn't have taken down the Armstrong empire on a shoestring budget.
pugdog said:They took Armstrong down after, not during, his career. Why?
Briant_Gumble said:If money was that powerful then USADA wouldn't have taken down the Armstrong empire on a shoestring budget.
timbo25 said:furthermore they got papers from the federal case.