Is this guy seriously the head of world cycling? Pity the sport and no wonder it bounces from one crises to the next. I'm not sure if he's stupid or just so pig-headed that he can't see the damage he's doing?
Let's start with how he lost the unlosable public opinion battle between the UCI and ASO. How the greedy ASO was able to come out smelling of roses while McDuck threatened ridiculous sanctions he didn't have the power to impose, is incompetence at its finest. It certainly changed my opinion of the ASO (as did its restructure) that the sport would be nowhere near where it is today without the entrepreneurial organization.
Next up, how he has single-handedly screwed track cycling for the foreseeable future. This time McDill, in his ultimate wisdom, decided to play with the big boys at the IOC and got his pants pulled down as track cycling lost its most prestigious event (IP) and its most entertaining (Madison). I would have thought the corrupt cronies at the IOC and the corrupt cronies at the UCI would have spoken the same language... apparently the corrupt cronies at the IOC are infinitely better at their job than McStupid.
How this great sport has continued to grow in spite of imbeciles like McDick and his predecessor Hein 'baked beans' Verbruggen (who even made the IOC cronies look clean) is amazing. The sooner we get ride of the old brigade (who think that just because they've worked in the sport for 40-years means they deserve to run it) and replace them with well educated sports administrators, the better.
To me, the whole fact that the UCI put its (ridiculously expensive and badly designed) HQ in the middle of a paddock in Aigle, rather than up the road in Lausanne (to be near the IOC) pretty much sums these numskulls up.
But they're just my thoughts.
Let's start with how he lost the unlosable public opinion battle between the UCI and ASO. How the greedy ASO was able to come out smelling of roses while McDuck threatened ridiculous sanctions he didn't have the power to impose, is incompetence at its finest. It certainly changed my opinion of the ASO (as did its restructure) that the sport would be nowhere near where it is today without the entrepreneurial organization.
Next up, how he has single-handedly screwed track cycling for the foreseeable future. This time McDill, in his ultimate wisdom, decided to play with the big boys at the IOC and got his pants pulled down as track cycling lost its most prestigious event (IP) and its most entertaining (Madison). I would have thought the corrupt cronies at the IOC and the corrupt cronies at the UCI would have spoken the same language... apparently the corrupt cronies at the IOC are infinitely better at their job than McStupid.
How this great sport has continued to grow in spite of imbeciles like McDick and his predecessor Hein 'baked beans' Verbruggen (who even made the IOC cronies look clean) is amazing. The sooner we get ride of the old brigade (who think that just because they've worked in the sport for 40-years means they deserve to run it) and replace them with well educated sports administrators, the better.
To me, the whole fact that the UCI put its (ridiculously expensive and badly designed) HQ in the middle of a paddock in Aigle, rather than up the road in Lausanne (to be near the IOC) pretty much sums these numskulls up.
But they're just my thoughts.
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