A lot of the contempt for McQuaid comes from his big mouth. Not a week goes by it seems when he does not stick his foot into it in some way.
When Armstrong evaded dope testing in the Spring by refusing to let the tester inside for thirty minutes while he "showered", McQuaid dismissed the concern over it. It was ridiculous at the time because if you give the athletes unchaperoned time to mask what they are using then the testing is worthless. At the Tour de France we now have Astana using the same technique but worse. They are hiding from the testers for a whole hour. The situation is completely predicatble. These sorts of things happen all the time with McQuaid. He is incredibily stupid, corrupt, or both.
The whole ProTour spat with the GT organizers really showed how polically inept he is. It is hard to imagine anyone doing a worse job than he did. It was like a man walking through a park littered with dog doo and managing to step in every pile.
When Armstrong evaded dope testing in the Spring by refusing to let the tester inside for thirty minutes while he "showered", McQuaid dismissed the concern over it. It was ridiculous at the time because if you give the athletes unchaperoned time to mask what they are using then the testing is worthless. At the Tour de France we now have Astana using the same technique but worse. They are hiding from the testers for a whole hour. The situation is completely predicatble. These sorts of things happen all the time with McQuaid. He is incredibily stupid, corrupt, or both.
The whole ProTour spat with the GT organizers really showed how polically inept he is. It is hard to imagine anyone doing a worse job than he did. It was like a man walking through a park littered with dog doo and managing to step in every pile.