National federation contact information

[mtb Dad]

This is interesting too. Am i reading this wrong or are these the current voting delegates for the asian confed? I say current as it says they were elected at the 2010 ACC congress...

-N. Karunarathne (Sri Lanka) -Alfred Li (Hong Kong China) -Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (India) -Ali Zangiabadi (Iran) -Kim Jin Chul (Korea) -Shoichi Iwadate (Japan)-Low Wye Mun (Singapore)-Li Kai Chik (Chinese Taipei)-Abu Samah Wahab (Malaysia)

from this little memo...

http://www.mncf.org.my/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=61

That's what I understood too. I also note the minutes are dated about a week before the UCI congress. Not much time to have a word.

Anyone know if these delegates are the presidents of their national federations?

 

[mtb Dad]

Looks like the Pan American Cycling Federation may not be entirely immune to the anti-doping tide. Looking around their website, I found this:

Armstrong hangs up his bike with a big disappoitment.

Australia, Jan. 26. (EFE).- El heptcampeón Tour and world road champion in 1993 took leave of cycling in the Tour Down Under in the worst way possible. Armstrong finished in 67th place overall in a week in one of the major sports publications uncovered how and when the doping.

http://www.copaci.co.cu/html/noticias.asp?lng=EN&org=3

However, when looking for congress and delegate procedures, I found this:

Modalities. (which I assume is procedures)

Whatever (COPACI), bla, bla bla

http://www.copaci.co.cu/html/copacires.asp?lng=EN&opt=4

Hmmm. Might be tough to find out about the congress....

Edit: Tried "Regulations". In english, nothing. In spanish, only road techncial rules.
http://www.copaci.co.cu/html/normas.asp?lng=EN

 

[mtb Dad]

Found the 2010 european delegates to the UCI congress in the 2009 UCI annual report. The annual report doesn't have a date on it, but it looks like April or May 2010. That's a good few months before the UCI congress in Sept at the road worlds.

The down side is, none of the other continental federations took the opportunity to anounce their delegates.

Starts to cast doubt on the motivations behind the globalisation strategy, eh?

Election of fourteen European delegates for the
UCI Congress
The following people were elected:
Mr R. Ba kuti s (LTU)
Mr D. Botte ro (MON)
Mr P. Galik (SVK)
Mr T. Lund (DEN)
Mr R. Marchegiano (ITA)
Mr Th. Maréchal (BEL)
Mr R. Massak (AUT)
Mr N. Michaelides (CYP)
Mr J. Pitallie r (FRA)
Mr J. Potoc ki (POL)
Mr M. Procikevic (MNE)
Mr J. Regenwette r (LUX)
Mr Th. Tzimas (GRE)
Mr M. Wintels (NED)

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/g...bjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=NjI3MTQ&LangId=1

 

[mtb Dad]

Edit. Re: date of UCI annual report is August. About a month and half before the congress.

http://www.uci.ch/Modules/ENews/ENe...rToList=&txtSiteSearch=annual+report&LangId=1

Publication of the 2009 UCI Annual Report

Date:
10.08.2010

Description: The UCI has published its 2009 Annual Report. The document is available in electronic form at http://www.uci.ch (click on the "Publications" link).

The Annual Report comprises the Federation's financial report, the Director-General's report, the reports of the Continental Confederations and a report on the UCI's various activities during 2009 (the management and development of cycling disciplines, the activities of UCI departments, training activities at the World Cycling Centre and anti-doping programmes).

2009 UCI Annual Report - part 1
2009 UCI Annual Report - part 2

Given that Hein was able to write to all the voting delegates in July 2005 to lobby for McQuaid, they must be known to at least him. Be nice if he passed that to the annual report editors.

 

[TubularBills]

Here is Asia:

Africa: 7 delegates
America: 9 delegates
Asia: 9 delegates
Europe: 14 delegates
Oceania: 3 delegates

The Congress decided that the 2011 ACC Statutory Congress would be held in Thailand (Bangkok) during the period of the 2011 Asian Cycling Championships in Thailand in Feb2011, and it duly elected 9 voting delegates and 3 reserves from Asia who are going to vote at the 2010 UCI Congress on 1stOct,2010 in Melbourne, Australia as follows:

-N. Karunarathne (Sri Lanka)
-Shoichi Iwadate (Japan)
-Alfred Li (Hong Kong China)
-Low Wye Mun (Singapore)
-Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (India)
-Li Kai Chik (Chinese Taipei)
-Ali Zangiabadi (Iran)
-Abu Samah Wahab (Malaysia)
-Kim Jin Chul (Korea)

-Reserves (replacement in case of vacancies of the above voting delegates):

*Decha Hemkrasri (Thailand)
*Vatche Zadourian (Lebanon)
*Faisal Bin Humaid Al-Qassimi (UAE) is listed also as a member of the UCI Management Council on the UCI site, so was perhaps voted in as the Asian rep at the Melbourne election

http://www.asiancycling.com/04_news/noticeDetail.asp?tblName=news&id=20100421155437662

 

[TubularBills]

and some somewhat dated (2009) info on the 15 members of the Management Council and other American Postings (appears to be 4 year terms):

http://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=4558

 

[mtb Dad]

Here is Asia:

Africa: 7 delegates
America: 9 delegates
Asia: 9 delegates
Europe: 14 delegates
Oceania: 3 delegates

The Congress decided that the 2011 ACC Statutory Congress would be held in Thailand (Bangkok) during the period of the 2011 Asian Cycling Championships in Thailand in Feb2011, and it duly elected 9 voting delegates and 3 reserves from Asia who are going to vote at the 2010 UCI Congress on 1stOct,2010 in Melbourne, Australia as follows:

-N. Karunarathne (Sri Lanka)
-Shoichi Iwadate (Japan)
-Alfred Li (Hong Kong China)
-Low Wye Mun (Singapore)
-Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (India)
-Li Kai Chik (Chinese Taipei)
-Ali Zangiabadi (Iran)
-Abu Samah Wahab (Malaysia)
-Kim Jin Chul (Korea)

-Reserves (replacement in case of vacancies of the above voting delegates):

*Decha Hemkrasri (Thailand)
*Vatche Zadourian (Lebanon)
*Faisal Bin Humaid Al-Qassimi (UAE) is listed also as a member of the UCI Management Council on the UCI site, so was perhaps voted in as the Asian rep at the Melbourne election

http://www.asiancycling.com/04_news/noticeDetail.asp?tblName=news&id=20100421155437662

Thanks. From your link, it looks like the 2010 meeting was sometime before April 20, as that was when the list was published. So, there's time to lobby before the UCI congress.

I wonder if there's a chance to talk to the candidates for these voting positions before they stand at their continental congress elections. If any of them are for reforms to the UCI, it would be good to let their national federation members know to send their support, and their fellow delegates at the continental congress.

For eg. anyone that knows a delegate that wants a UCI congress vote, could ask them their opinion, and post that in the clinic.

 

[TubularBills]

Organizing into a Master List and Contact Info (Need help with the voids)

Master List | Continental Congress Delegates

Union Européenne de Cyclisme:

Mr. Wojciech WALKIEWICZ - President
Postfach 339
8703 ERLENBACH
Suisse

Phone / Fax : +41-44-912.04.46
E-mail : uec@bluewin.ch
Website : http://www.uec-federation.eu

Europe: 14 Delegates

Romualdas Bakutis (LTU)
Daniel Bottero (MON)
Pavol Galik (SVK)
Tom Lund (DEN)
Rocco Marchegiano (ITA)
Thierry Maréchal (BEL)
Rudolf Massak (AUT)
Nakis Michaelides (ITA)
Jean Pitallier (FRA)
Jaroslaw Potocki (POL)
Marko Procikevic (MNE)
Jean Regenwetter (LUX)
Athanassios Tzimas (GRE)
Marcel Wintels (NED)

Asian Cycling Confederation:

Mr. Hee Wook Cho - President
MG Building 315-4, 2Ka Sungsoo-****
Sungdong-Ku, Seoul, Korea

Phone : +82-2-467-1313
Fax : +82-2-467-1323
E-mail : acccyling@yahoo.co.kr ; kucbw@hanmail.net

Website: http://www.asiancycling.com

Asia: 9 Delegates (+ 3 Alternates)

-N. Karunarathne (Sri Lanka)
-Shoichi Iwadate (Japan)
-Alfred Li (Hong Kong China)
-Low Wye Mun (Singapore)
-Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa (India)
-Li Kai Chik (Chinese Taipei)
-Ali Zangiabadi (Iran)
-Abu Samah Wahab (Malaysia)
-Kim Jin Chul (Korea)

-Reserves:

*Decha Hemkrasri (Thailand)
*Vatche Zadourian (Lebanon)
*Faisal Bin Humaid Al-Qassimi (UAE)

Confederation Africaine de Cyclisme:

Mr. Dr. Mohamed Wagih AZZAM - President
CAC Secretariat
c/o Egyptian Cycling Federation
P.O. Box 1630 CAIRO – Egypt

Phone : +20 2 260 07 33
Fax : +20 2 401 69 68
E-mail : wagih_azzam@hotmail.com

Africa: 7 delegates

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Confederacion Panamericana de Ciclismo:

Mr. José Manuel PELAEZ - President
Vél. Nacional "Reinaldo Paseiro"
Carretera Monumental km 4 1/2
H. DEL ESTE CIUDAD DE LA HABANA Cuba

Phone : +53-7-95.37.76
Fax : +53-7-95.12.86
E-mail : panaci@enet.cu
Website : http://www.copaci.co.cu

Americas: 9 delegates

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Oceanian Cycling Confederation:

Mr. Mike TURTUR - President
153 Prospect Road
PROSPECT 5082
Adelaïde SA
Australia

Phone : +61 8 8344 9970
E-mail : mike.turtur@tourism.sa.com
Website : http://www.oceaniacycling.com Site Down?

Oceania: 3 delegates

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[TexPat]

Could we have a list of the more influential federations? I realize that those may be a matter of opinion, of course. However, I frankly cannot see what good it would do to contact the cycling federation in Togo in hopes of them having due influence.
Don't be mistaken into thinking that the nature of this request is in any way racist. Anyone who knows me knows otherwise.
The fact is that the UCI is eurocentric to the nth degree. While having some help from the less influential may prove to be ultimately advantageous, it appears to me that going after the big players will be far more effective.
I'd be happy to make a personal appeal in person to any delegate in the South Pacific right now; the weather in Wellington is freaking horrible.

 

[TexPat]

re: Who to write to and why.

These two articles give a lot of info on how the UCI elections work, and where the power comes from. But it's still only 42 people.

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2005/interviews/?id=sylvia_schenk05a


(I've tried to get the delegates details from a UCI contact before and received no answer. Anyone else?)

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2005/interviews/?id=sylvia_schenk05b
Schenk talking about Verbruggen:


This shows the pressure national federation presidents are under from Verbruggen and Co. Schenk is a lawyer, former major city councillor, and activist, probably better prepared than most NF presidents. And the German federation was talking about cancelling the worlds over doping, so we know they aren't/weren't so beholden to the UCI.

It might help writers to show understanding to their reps of what they face at the UCI, while insisting on an accounting of the doping missteps over 40 years. Or be prepared to allow someone else to take their place.

Perhaps it would be good to get Sylvia Shenk's contact details.

 

[TexPat]

Thanks EatYourVitamins. That's a start. But only 42 of them vote for the UCI president at the UCI Congress. But mysteriously, it's not published who they are.

Might I suggest that the aforementioned delegates are mostly from Europe?

 

[TubularBills]

Might I suggest that the aforementioned delegates are mostly from Europe?

If it works anything like the UN - the more influential, rich and powerful Nations/representatives exert their power, trade favors and blatantly bribe the lesser Nations to vote their way - giving the appearance of unity but the reality is anything but. Just a thought, after all shyte flows downhill.

Not sure if that helps or hinders - but a full court press of all 42 might at least start a dialogue at their next congressional meeting?

Not unlikely that the more powerful members from say Europe, The US or Australia are already sucking on the teet and therefore harder to sway?

& some timely insight from Schenk 2/7/11 CN:

"In addition, there is an unpleasant culture of gift-making. As far as concrete candidacies to host events are concerned, there is a framework of rules at the UCI, but other than that there was a great willingness to take gifts for granted. My former colleagues of the UCI management committee told me, for example, that after the nomination of McQuaid as successor to Hein Verbruggen they discovered a bottle of fine Irish whiskey in their hotel rooms. I hadn't voted for McQuaid so I didn't receive anything - but I don't drink whiskey anyway..."

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/schenk-encourages-independent-investigation-of-uci

 

[mtb Dad]

Could we have a list of the more influential federations? I realize that those may be a matter of opinion, of course. However, I frankly cannot see what good it would do to contact the cycling federation in Togo in hopes of them having due influence.
Don't be mistaken into thinking that the nature of this request is in any way racist. Anyone who knows me knows otherwise.
The fact is that the UCI is eurocentric to the nth degree. While having some help from the less influential may prove to be ultimately advantageous, it appears to me that going after the big players will be far more effective.
I'd be happy to make a personal appeal in person to any delegate in the South Pacific right now; the weather in Wellington is freaking horrible.

See the post above about how many votes each continental federation gets. Europe gets the most at 14, but Asia gets 9 and so do the Americas. Africa gets 7. And if Togo gets the nod at the African continental federation congress, they get one of the votes. Given the obscurity of the delegates names and contacts (even candidates for President in 2005 couldn't get them), chances are you would be the only one talking to Togo except for Hein.

That's votes. Influence is another thing. UCI has the most goodies (commission places, commissaire assignments, calendar places, etc.) to give out for votes, but so do bigger national federations, like invitations to races and training centers.

I don't know what the UCI congress delegates vote on besides the president. But that's important enough that we should be asking them questions. Besides that, it seems even things that are supposed to be voted on by the UCI Management Committee, aren't, like the UCI endorsement of McQuaid's candidacy.