Mtfu uci

[nevada]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vinokourov-to-take-up-management-position-at-astana


Isn't this what the UCI should be stopping ?

 

[peterst6906]

I thought that this was no longer possible:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-forbids-convicted-dopers-from-future-team-management-positions

 

[Mad Elephant Man]

Why????????

 

[Tinman]

where's the cycling media on this one? Should be all over it. Not even CN seems to be picking up on its own previous story... yet???

Hmmm...

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

The rule applies only to those found to have violated anti-doping regulations after the rule went into effect in 2011. Therefore it does not apply to Vinokourov, whose violation occurred in 2007.

Susan

 

[Tinman]

thanks for clarification and yes do recall now.

Maybe CN could have mentioned in the story, seems somewhat relevant... and illustrates the problem of cleaning up team management is not going away with this UCI ruling either, at least not for many many years (read decades).

Makes the rule and the UCI announcement thereof a bit of a "joke" perhaps?

 

[Cloxxki]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vinokourov-to-take-up-management-position-at-astana


Isn't this what the UCI should be stopping ?

Appropriate way to end your carreer, a crit in your own village, with the winner predetermined via monetary agreements and other pressure measures.

I don't see how Vino is worse than Riis, Bruyneel or Vaughters. He deserves the same chance they got. No special standards because he's less Euro-Anglo from my point of view.
UCI have greater issues to deal with.

Anyways, Vino has owned the Astana team in more ways than Lance owned Postal/Discovery/RS as far as I can tell. Lance may get a call from Clinton when he wins, Vino gets on the phone with the president when he gets soso DS's or teammates. Little changes, just Vino doesn't ride himself.

 

[Maillot Vert]

UCI Regulation 1.1.006.2

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-forbids-convicted-dopers-from-future-team-management-positions

"This measure – which will most certainly be very important in the medium term to guarantee an increasingly healthy movement for future generations – will come into effect on July 1st; it will not be applied retrospectively."

UCI Regulation 1.1.006.2

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/g...bjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=NzA2NDE&LangId=1

Article 1.1.006.2
No licence to participate in the sport as Staff under clause 1.1.010 (general manager, team manager, coach, doctor, paramedical assistant, mechanic, driver or other function as specified on the licence) shall be granted to a person who has been found by an appropriate body to have violated as an athlete the UCI’s Anti-Doping Rules or the anti-doping rules of any other organisation.
However a licence may be granted if all three of the following conditions are fulfilled:
(1) the person concerned committed a violation only once,
(2) the said violation was not sanctioned with an ineligibility for two years or more
and
(3) five years have elapsed between the moment of the violation and the first day of the year for which the licence is granted.
Furthermore, no licence to participate in the sport as a staff member under clause 1.1.010 shall be granted to a person who has been found by a court of law or other competent body to have been guilty of facts which can reasonably be considered to be equivalent to a violation of the UCI’s Anti Doping Rules and who was a medical doctor at the time of such facts .
This clause applies in case of violations committed as from 1st July 2011.

 

[noddy69]

where's the cycling media on this one? Should be all over it. Not even CN seems to be picking up on its own previous story... yet???

Hmmm...

It will not be applied retrospectively ....that accounts for current management and also for those convicted before this ruling was brought in hence Vino and others caught before the ruling are entitled to take up posts.No story,

 

[nevada]

Ekimov to Katusha now - looks like cycling has turned a new leal.

 

[Big Doopie]

it's enough to make the true fan completely despair.

 

[D-Queued]

it's enough to make the true fan completely despair.

It is a double-barreled shotgun blast.

For both teams, though, isn't it stating the obvious?

Dave.

 

[PosterBill]

It's pretty amazing isn't it...Can't wait to watch Katusha and Astana rise up the ranks...I bet performance will jump out the roof this year

 

[Tinman]

It is a double-barreled shotgun blast.

For both teams, though, isn't it stating the obvious?

Dave.

Yes and Pro Wrestling looks like it's well and truly here to stay for at least another decade, unless a new UCI takes charge to save our sport.