Yer man Brendan Gallagher is a bit of a wang. note the headline says one thing (bet hedging) n report just a vacuuming up of scraps from the day.
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Briant_Gumble said:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...race-by-endorsing-USADA-drug-allegations.html
The telegraph are generally pretty reputable I don't know why they would be reporting this with confidence if they didn't have some inside info.
Cobblestones said:As has been said in several posts, it's rumored to come on Monday. The day of the week and the possibility of a press conference are worrying. Normally you'd release bad news quietly around closing of business on a Friday afternoon. It seems the UCI is aiming at the precise opposite.
jilbiker said:UCI's hand was forced. Verbruggen had said decision will be next friday. Rabobank pulled out which was a shock and before other sponsors joined just like the avalanche that followed the Nike pull out, they had to make an announcement. They know the sponsors are all waiting for monday, if they fight it, there will be an avalanche. if they skirt around, there will be an avalanche, i am predicting some major changes. The pocket is where it bites the most and Rabobank move was bad
BroDeal said:I think they will appeal the six month suspensions and rubber stamp the Armstrong sanction. Also whatever text is released will stress how much the UCI done to fight doping.
The smart thing to do would be to use the occasion to announce some kind of new anti-doping effort.
Maybe not, but all the people who support the sport do, and some of those people sit on the board that is behind McQuaid. And surely all those CEO's have access to the top UCI guys - you know how that goes. If I call, its "who??", if the CEO of Giant, Rabo, or ASO calls, "Yes SIR, right away, sir!".Ryo Hazuki said:the uci isn't going to lose money over this either way
Yingge said:I dont think that the UCI can do anything but ratify the USADA decisions. Sponsors are starting to jump ship as it is now, and more may follow. I am not really keen on the suspensions being only 6 months, considering that some are still active riders, but i guess that is a price to be paid to loosen their lips.
And of course, there needs to be a massive cleanout of positions at the top of the UCI, starting with a few resignations or retirements on Monday.
Thompson added: 'The whole UCI are clearly not fit for purpose. I don't know if they're allowed to, but it really is the sort of thing where the IOC should be able to step in and say, "Hold on a minute. If you want to be a part of our family, you need to sort things out".
'I don't know if they have the power to do that but they should. I know there are links but the Olympics is a very special thing, it carries a lot of weight and it should use its influence.
'There should be sanctions against cycling being a part of the next Olympic Games unless they put their house in order. I want drug cheats thrown out, never to return.
'I'm not defending them, but we need to look at how things developed so that they could cheat in the first place. Sanctions against cheating athletes are essential but they also need to be applied against seemingly complicit governing bodies.
'I don't think people who take part in cycling, the competitors and the people at the grass roots who go out at the weekend on their bikes just for the sheer love of it, feel any sort of connection or even confidence in the people who run their sport, and that's terrible.
'The two sides, the governing body and the competitors have grown so far apart that it has become a disgrace and it's not fair on cycling. The loser is the very sport they're meant to be protecting and we should always remember that it's not the people at the top who own the sport, not the people in the nice offices and the big, flash hotels.
'It's the cyclists who are looking at the reputation of their sport suffering, and it's not right.'
thehog said:Calls for cycling to be dropped from the Games.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ot...-banned-Olympics-Lance-Armstrong-scandal.html
AcademyCC said:Sky Sports News (UK) is making a big deal of this press conference. Showing live from midday. Had reports from conference room already. Never seen that before on UK tv. Reporter knew what she was talking about as well which is a bonus.
They are not just concentrating on Lance which I was slightly worried about.
Everything points towards UCI having to back USADA decision. If they don't every journalist should stand up and walk out of that room instantly.
Having said that its UCI were talking about here. Thats why Im glad SKY Sports are showing it live and will have it on loop for the rest of today.
There is a chance the greater British public are about to get there first lesson in corruption from Mr McQuaid.
Big Daddy said:The decision makers at the UCI are just two people, Pat McQuaid and Hein Verbruggen. They have shown their bias already. Both know about hiding positive drug tests and accepting inappropriate donations. These two men have no morals, no integrity. Their entire past history indicates that they will fight the USADA evidence.
but they risk of it coming out at CAS if it were true if they appeal I would thinkrishtonred said:I have read the full works from USADA, and nowhere can I find any proof that the statement "Both know about hiding positive drug tests and accepting inappropriate donations" ???? There is a lot of she said, he said, she said.... and a lovely quote regarding Nike saying "he couldn't imagine where else the money had come from"...not exactly onclusive proof????
rishtonred said:I have read the full works from USADA, and nowhere can I find any proof that the statement "Both know about hiding positive drug tests and accepting inappropriate donations" ???? There is a lot of she said, he said, she said.... and a lovely quote regarding Nike saying "he couldn't imagine where else the money had come from"...not exactly onclusive proof????
mountainrman said:you will not find it.
The entire report is kangaroo justice and opinion masquerading as a legal document, Im no fan of Armstrong but even less of these sport banana dictatorships. These bodies and such as UCI are why dopers survive
The likes even of Tom Boonen are saying it of USADA