Yesterday Pat McQuaid made the comical claim that There has never been corruption in the UCI
The UCI, and McQuaid himself, has a long history of Corruption
During apartheid McQuaid raced in South Africa under an fake name. He was banned for life by the IOC. How is a person banned for life now an elected member of the IOC?
After winning the 1997 Laurant Brochard tested Lidocaine. Verburggen actively covered up the positive, first delaying the announcement then accepted a back dated TUE to let him off......dispite back dated TUE's being clearly against the rules
Lance Armstrong tested positive for Cortisone at the 1999 Tour. Armstrong and his team were given advanced notice of the positive and allowed to develop an excuse. Despite multiple prior public claims that he did not have a TUE he produced a back dated TUE, which the UCI accepted despite it being against the UCI's rules
Julian DeVries, Floyd Landis, and others have said that Armstrong told them that he paid the UCI $500,000 to make an EPO positive from the 2001 Tour de Suisse disappear. Sylivia Schenk, UCI board member and head of it's ethics committee said
From 2002-2006 Hein Vebruggen made multiple proclamations that the Peloton was clean. He even sued WADA for telling the truth about the sports problems. At the same time Hein was telling people that the sport was clean they were
Warning Tyler Hamilton that his HR-OFF score was 123.8 on April 24, the day before L-B-L, where he finished ninth. Five days later on April 29,it was a very high 132.9,(The Limit is 133) with a corresponding reticulocyte count of 0.22 percent and a haematocrit level of 49.7 percent (the limit being 50)
They were warning Levi that his Off score was 132.8 when the limit is 133 and normal is 90.
We know that dozens of other riders where following similar programs with Fuentes and had similar questionable blood values.....but the UCI publicly claimed the sport was clean. This was a lie.
Jesus Manzano gave detailed information about doping in the sport. He talked about how Fuentes blood doped riders and how Walter Viru, who ran a UCI blood lab, would give advanced notice of Out of Competition Control (OCC)to his team and to USPS. The UCI did nothing. They ignored his claims for years. Fuentes has been arrested twice and Viru was arrest last year....the UCI pretended Manzano was nuts, bitter, etc.
Verburggen retired from the UCI in order to set up a company that would own and sell the rights for all ProTour races. Publicly the UCI liked to pretend that the conflict with the ASO, RCS, and Unipublic was about the number of teams guaranteed a start spot but the real conflict was TV rights. Verburggen's power grab was not an attempt to help the sport but an attempt to enrich himself. For the next 4 years the sport was in chaos....all because of Verbuggen's greed.
A group headed by Hein Verbuggen and Lance Armstrong tried to buy the Tour in 2006. It is hard to ignore the conflict of interest when the head of the UCI and the sports largest rider are business partners. They were unable to secure funding for the purchase and set out to devalue the ASO.
The UCI rules in 2007 were clear. If a rider missed a single Out of Competition Control (OCC) in the 6 weeks prior to a Grand Tour the rider is not allowed to start the GT. In addition if a rider missed 3 OCC's it counts as a positive. Rasmussen missed 4 OCC's in the weeks prior to the Tour. The UCI did nothing
They timed their announcement of the missed tests for the eve of the Tour, so it would cause maximum embarrassment and damage to the ASO.
Prudhomme said at the time
“Verbruggen wanted to buy the Tour, but we said ‘No thanks,’ so now he wants to get the price down,”
The UCI set up the BioPassport as an independent oversight that could insure that riders with questionable blood values, like Levi and Tyler could be sanctioned without a positive. It was far from independent. In fact 5 riders whose passports were ruled questionable by the committee were not pursued by the UCI. Was this because these riders had the financial resources to fight the sanction and were thus untouchable?
Feel free to add more, this is just a start
The UCI, and McQuaid himself, has a long history of Corruption
During apartheid McQuaid raced in South Africa under an fake name. He was banned for life by the IOC. How is a person banned for life now an elected member of the IOC?
After winning the 1997 Laurant Brochard tested Lidocaine. Verburggen actively covered up the positive, first delaying the announcement then accepted a back dated TUE to let him off......dispite back dated TUE's being clearly against the rules
Lance Armstrong tested positive for Cortisone at the 1999 Tour. Armstrong and his team were given advanced notice of the positive and allowed to develop an excuse. Despite multiple prior public claims that he did not have a TUE he produced a back dated TUE, which the UCI accepted despite it being against the UCI's rules
Julian DeVries, Floyd Landis, and others have said that Armstrong told them that he paid the UCI $500,000 to make an EPO positive from the 2001 Tour de Suisse disappear. Sylivia Schenk, UCI board member and head of it's ethics committee said
From 2002-2006 Hein Vebruggen made multiple proclamations that the Peloton was clean. He even sued WADA for telling the truth about the sports problems. At the same time Hein was telling people that the sport was clean they were
Warning Tyler Hamilton that his HR-OFF score was 123.8 on April 24, the day before L-B-L, where he finished ninth. Five days later on April 29,it was a very high 132.9,(The Limit is 133) with a corresponding reticulocyte count of 0.22 percent and a haematocrit level of 49.7 percent (the limit being 50)
They were warning Levi that his Off score was 132.8 when the limit is 133 and normal is 90.
We know that dozens of other riders where following similar programs with Fuentes and had similar questionable blood values.....but the UCI publicly claimed the sport was clean. This was a lie.
Jesus Manzano gave detailed information about doping in the sport. He talked about how Fuentes blood doped riders and how Walter Viru, who ran a UCI blood lab, would give advanced notice of Out of Competition Control (OCC)to his team and to USPS. The UCI did nothing. They ignored his claims for years. Fuentes has been arrested twice and Viru was arrest last year....the UCI pretended Manzano was nuts, bitter, etc.
Verburggen retired from the UCI in order to set up a company that would own and sell the rights for all ProTour races. Publicly the UCI liked to pretend that the conflict with the ASO, RCS, and Unipublic was about the number of teams guaranteed a start spot but the real conflict was TV rights. Verburggen's power grab was not an attempt to help the sport but an attempt to enrich himself. For the next 4 years the sport was in chaos....all because of Verbuggen's greed.
A group headed by Hein Verbuggen and Lance Armstrong tried to buy the Tour in 2006. It is hard to ignore the conflict of interest when the head of the UCI and the sports largest rider are business partners. They were unable to secure funding for the purchase and set out to devalue the ASO.
The UCI rules in 2007 were clear. If a rider missed a single Out of Competition Control (OCC) in the 6 weeks prior to a Grand Tour the rider is not allowed to start the GT. In addition if a rider missed 3 OCC's it counts as a positive. Rasmussen missed 4 OCC's in the weeks prior to the Tour. The UCI did nothing
They timed their announcement of the missed tests for the eve of the Tour, so it would cause maximum embarrassment and damage to the ASO.
Prudhomme said at the time
“Verbruggen wanted to buy the Tour, but we said ‘No thanks,’ so now he wants to get the price down,”
The UCI set up the BioPassport as an independent oversight that could insure that riders with questionable blood values, like Levi and Tyler could be sanctioned without a positive. It was far from independent. In fact 5 riders whose passports were ruled questionable by the committee were not pursued by the UCI. Was this because these riders had the financial resources to fight the sanction and were thus untouchable?
Feel free to add more, this is just a start
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