Rumor about UCI's Doping Enforcement

[DirtyWorks]

From the " Foxes guarding the hen house" desk comes a new rumor.

Flammecast has posted an article suggesting the UCI MIGHT remove itself from doping enforcement..... Only to be replaced with an organizations with a close connection to Hein V., the General Association of International Sports Federation. Their stated mission is to commercialize sports.

If this happens, wow.

The narrative is not very tight, but good stuff if you don't follow sports federations. Important bits sprinkled liberally throughout.

http://www.flammecast.com/back-of-t...d-slides-under-the-radar-and-they-matter.html

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[washedup]

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[ElChingon]

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[Damiano Machiavelli]

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[Susan Westemeyer]

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[rickshaw]

Very interesting

From the " Foxes guarding the hen house" desk comes a new rumor.

Flammecast has posted an article suggesting the UCI MIGHT remove itself from doping enforcement..... Only to be replaced with an organizations with a close connection to Hein V., the General Association of International Sports Federation. Their stated mission is to commercialize sports.

If this happens, wow.

The narrative is not very tight, but good stuff if you don't follow sports federations. Important bits sprinkled liberally throughout.

http://www.flammecast.com/back-of-t...d-slides-under-the-radar-and-they-matter.html

And a logical progression. Doping is a the "loose cannon", an uncontrolable variable that will always get in the way of sports-entertainment profits. How to deal with this variable? The various sports must be "professionalized" along the lines of North American Sports. Create stabile and predictible structures. Better for teams, better for advertisers / sponsors, better for the athletes, better for the entertainment value = better for the consumers. Win-Win. Looks like Heinie is trying to create that structure. The doping issue must go away.

The logic is pretty solid.

 

[Mambo95]

And a logical progression. Doping is a the "loose cannon", an uncontrolable variable that will always get in the way of sports-entertainment profits. How to deal with this variable? The various sports must be "professionalized" along the lines of North American Sports. Create stabile and predictible structures. Better for teams, better for advertisers / sponsors, better for the athletes, better for the entertainment value = better for the consumers. Win-Win. Looks like Heinie is trying to create that structure. The doping issue must go away.

The logic is pretty solid.

The logic is only solid if you completely ignore the existence of the police.

 

[DirtyWorks]

And a logical progression. Doping is a the "loose cannon", an uncontrolable variable that will always get in the way of sports-entertainment profits. How to deal with this variable? The various sports must be "professionalized" along the lines of North American Sports. Create stabile and predictible structures. Better for teams, better for advertisers / sponsors, better for the athletes, better for the entertainment value = better for the consumers. Win-Win. Looks like Heinie is trying to create that structure. The doping issue must go away.

The logic is pretty solid.

Where's an icon for my head exploding?

And 5 years after doping enforcement vanishes they will be back to killing riders. In what way is that good for athletes? Carmichael will get his job back at USAC for 100x the salary. How is that good for competitive cycling?

 

[BigBoat]

If doping were legalized not much would change, other than more riders on smaller teams would be doped. And perhaps you'd see some new names up near the top. Thats if everyone were allowed to use epo. And no.....in the USA sports leagues & forwards and midfielders on world cup football teams do not have to autolgous blood dope, they just use epo. In a since its more fair. The UCI likes having the passport program because it keeps smaller teams down.

Look at Ricco, he did not have a team with doping, he had to try and do it himself.

At the end of the day the top 40-50 guys are about as fast as their gonna get right now with or without doping "controls." The only thing their really missing is corticoids which do help quite a bit with sustainable power. Perhaps a few percent, maybe more in a grand tour.

 

[Mrs John Murphy]

So we end up with a situation where we swap unaccountable national feds who are out to protect the national interest and look after the national golden boys, for an unaccountable organization who are out to protect their commercial interests and look after the riders who bring in the cash.

Teams like to out-source their doping these days, so now the UCI is out-sourcing its cover-ups.