UCI Takes on the World

[GoGarmin]

Fat Pat has burned his bridges with this UCI release, any element of truth he has to go.

No kidding. I used to think the UCI could go on with a major cleansing. Now the whole body needs to go and be replaced with, what? I don't know. but I look to ASO to take the lead here.

 

[MacRoadie]

How long has 60 minutes been around? How many episodes have they done?
Dave.

And how many of those involved major American politicians, giants of American business, or high-ranking American organized crime figures (the kind that kill or have people killed)?

Two jokers chirping at them from Switzerland isn't even going to make the morning intern meeting.

 

[Benotti69]

No kidding. I used to think the UCI could go on with a major cleansing. Now the whole body needs to go and be replaced with, what? I don't know. but I look to ASO to take the lead here.

replace the kettle with the pot???

I dont think so.

 

[thehog]

This was the first thing that poped up in my head when reading the statement from the UCI.

Well he lives in Switzerland so they won't be suing anyone who might defend themselves.

I read the AP news report today and it stated "The UCI is already taking legal action against Floyd Landis". Which it's not but it gets printed this way.

 

[Irish2009]

It's fairly obivious the UCI is using the Lance tactic of threthen or discredit anyone tells the truth. Remember what McQuaid said about Landis when Landis made his revelevations!!!!! Sabre rattling time is over UCI, time to man up and face the music.

 

[orbeas]

Uci

Suggest we all e mail Fat Pat and all his mafia and let him know what we think of him.

 

[DirtyWorks]

I'd still like to see the day when the Hein/Pat UCI is finally over, and as we've discussed before a UCI with Shenk, Gripper, Ashenden, maybe even LeMond, or even JV when he decides to really speak his mind.

I dunno about JV. Hang around a den of thieves long enough and you begin to get sympathetic to their lifestyle. My mind is open though.

Forget Pat, email the IOC. Demand they get behind retroactive testing policies in all Olympic sports and let the positives fly. Demand the federations and promoters get entirely out of the testing protocols and watch many more in-race positives fly.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Suggest we all e mail Fat Pat and all his mafia and let him know what we think of him.

Go ahead. Some of us already started

 

[marcozero]

Shame

As a Swiss I have to tell you that I'm ashamed that the UCI is based here. Between them, the CIO and FIFA I wonder how Switzerland can still be in the ten least corrupt countries according to Transparency International. I guess most of their corrupt deals end up be attributed to other countries.

 

[LugHugger]

Go ahead. Some of us already started

Could I also suggest copying the members of your National UCI affiliated board? After all, it's the National Boards who vote in the UCI elections. I appreciate that this is likely to achieve very little if you're in the USA due to Pharmapuppets being in control. Sorry.

If you're British, here's the list and contact details:

British Cycling's Board of Directors

Mr Brian Cookson OBE Executive Board President
Mr Anthony Barry
Mr Colin Docker
Mr Vic Hopkin
Mr Bob Howden
Mr Charlie Jackson
Mr Richard Kennedy
Mr Bill Owen
Mr Ian Sinclair

To contact any of the above please use the details below quoting the contacts name

Contact

Mrs Kay Bradley +44(0)161 274 2016 board@britishcycling.org.uk

Board Enquiries
British Cycling Federation
Stuart Street
MANCHESTER
M11 4DQ

 

[D-Queued]

Could I also suggest copying the members of your National UCI affiliated board? After all, it's the National Boards who vote in the UCI elections. I appreciate that this is likely to achieve very little if you're in the USA due to Pharmapuppets being in control. Sorry.

...

Canadian Cycling Association
http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/about/contact_us.shtml

Greg Mathieu
CEO/Secretary General
Canadian Cycling Assocation
Suite 203, 2197 Riverside Drive
Ottawa, ON
Canada K1H 7X3
Phone: (613) 248-1353
Fax: (613) 248-9311

greg.mathieu@canadian-cycling.com

Dave.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Why the admin@uci.ch? These addresses are a much better location or locations for your emails to end up.

McQuaid Pat - UCI<pat.mcquaid@uci.ch>; Strebel Jean-Pierre <jean-pierre.strebel@uci.ch>; Verbiest Philippe - UCI <philippe.verbiest@uci.ch>; Lanaya Amina - UCI <Amina.Lanaya@uci.ch>; Hubschmid Christophe <Christophe.Hubschmid@uci.ch>; Chevallier Philippe - UCI <Philippe.Chevallier@uci.ch>; Rumpf Alain - GCP <alain.rumpf@globalcyclingpromotion.com>; Rossi Francesca - UCI <Francesca.Rossi@uci.ch>; Zorzoli Mario - UCI <mario.zorzoli@uci.ch>; Middag Gerrit - UCI <Gerrit.Middag@uci.ch>; Magné Frédéric - UCI <Frederic.Magne@uci.ch>; Schnegg Claude - UCI <Claude.Schnegg@uci.ch>; Baumann Christian - UCI <Christian.Baumann@uci.ch>; Stauffer Julien - UCI <julien.stauffer@uci.ch

If you can stay off insults you might get an answer. At least Dr. Mario Zorzoli has answered today. It seems some people other than Heini/McQuaid know the credibilty problem the UCI has. I quote Zorzoli: "Not an easy task to change the image that UCI has in the public opinion..."

So the more write, the better it is. At least it´s better than nothing...

 

[egtalbot]

Forget Pat, email the IOC. Demand they get behind retroactive testing policies in all Olympic sports and let the positives fly. Demand the federations and promoters get entirely out of the testing protocols and watch many more in-race positives fly.

Exactly. A single body cannot simultaneously police and serve the athletes (the UCI apparently can do neither). WADA and USADA have their own problems of course, but the concept of an agency focused on the testing is a sound one.

 

[cathulu]

I sent Fat Pat a leave now please email.

 

[D-Queued]

If you can stay off insults you might get an answer. At least Dr. Mario Zorzoli has answered today. It seems some people other than Heini/McQuaid know the credibilty problem the UCI has. I quote Zorzoli: "Not an easy task to change the image that UCI has in the public opinion..."

So the more write, the better it is. At least it´s better than nothing...

Zorzoli is my hero. He has proved himself twice now.

Zorzoli for head of the UCI!

Dave.

 

[luckyboy]

Didn't we try something like this with all the national federations a while ago?

 

[gregod]

perhaps this has been addressed elsewhere, so forgive me if it is repetitive.

Why did (would) the UCI protect any rider from a positive test? especially given that much more well-liked riders (e.g. heras, rebellin) didn't get protected and even seem to be black-listed.

 

[D-Queued]

perhaps this has been addressed elsewhere, so forgive me if it is repetitive.

Why did (would) the UCI protect any rider from a positive test? especially given that much more well-liked riders (e.g. heras, rebellin) didn't get protected and even seem to be black-listed.

Some people know how to party, some don't.

Dave.

 

[gregod]

related to my above question: who or what organization or laws is the UCI subject to?

If they are shown to be corrupt, what laws govern their behaviour. I seem to remember that both in world cup and olympic bidding scandals nobody went to gaol. will the UCI get away with their malfeasance?

is it time for a new international professional cycling organization that is enforced by law for riders, teams, organizers and administrators?

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Not sure whose blog this is, but an excellent post on how to remove Pat, and why it's so difficult, is written by the Inner Ring:

Link here.

Definitely should be considered before forging too far ahead.

 

[frenchfry]

It's fairly obivious the UCI is using the Lance tactic of threthen or discredit anyone tells the truth. Remember what McQuaid said about Landis when Landis made his revelevations!!!!! Sabre rattling time is over UCI, time to man up and face the music.

Lots of threats to shoot the messenger, but not surprisingly no indication that they will follow up on the certainty that there was systematic team doping on the USPS/Discovery/Shack teams and that the main players are still active today. Are those donations still paying for the UCI's silence?

 

[JPM London]

Love MacRoadie's post on the first page. CBS dwarfs the UCI. CBS has a very large, prominent staff of their own attorneys, and key law firms on speed dial. Can the UCI really be that stupid? No. Hein and Pat are just full of a lot of hot gas and are trying to blow it our direction.

That's one thing - the other is the goal of the lawsuits.

UCI could never hope to silence the media as a whole by doing this. However, they can hope to silence the people the media speak to.

It's always nice and reassuring to know that the UCI is hard at work defending that one, true pillar of the cycling sport - omerta. I dread to think what would become of the sport if they failed to uphold such a holy concept...

 

[thehog]

That's one thing - the other is the goal of the lawsuits.

UCI could never hope to silence the media as a whole by doing this. However, they can hope to silence the people the media speak to.

It's always nice and reassuring to know that the UCI is hard at work defending that one, true pillar of the cycling sport - omerta. I dread to think what would become of the sport if they failed to uphold such a holy concept...

I want to see the UCI take on the FBI! There's a movie in that story!

In all seriousness Nov has peeled back some very interesting layers to his evidence. This story is a lot bigger than Armstrong. I've been saying it for weeks but the UCI is going to get hit very hard on this one. You see intelligence agency deal with other intelligence agencies and they also deal with governments. The one organisation that has any power over the UCI is the Swiss government. Believe me in the era of protecting ones economy and maintaining EU membership they don't want the central hub for prescription drugs trafficking centred out of their country. Watch this space.

 

[Animal]

What a bunch of weasel words so carefully crafted by the UCI's lawyers.

Really precise rejections of specific circumstances. Armstrong was never notified of a positive test by a laboratory? No, probably not.

If you read their statement, it treads very carefully, and even if there were corruptions of the system, then those statements could probably still be defended as true.

Fu(king weasels.

 

[L'Etranger]

The Hog:

"The one organisation that has any power over the UCI is the Swiss government. Believe me in the era of protecting ones economy and maintaining EU membership they don't want the central hub for prescription drugs trafficking centred out of their country.

"

You may well be right that the Swiss government would be unhappy about malfeasance at the UCI (for which there seems to be growing evidence), but as a point of fact, Switzerland is not a member of the EU, so maintaining membership would not be the motivation.