UCI's response to USADA report

[mikkemus23]

Uci strips LA.

 

[kingjr]

POW Right in the kisser

@spalco, LA is banned from cycling and stripped of his 7 TdF-Titles, Pat McQuaid just said it.

 

[ValleyFlowers]

Working video link: http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/186310/37/LIVE-VIDEO-UCI-to-Announce-Decision-on--Lance-Armstrong-Case-

 

[thrawn]

Lance armstrong has no place in cycling

Quite a strong statement. Wasn't expecting it to be that unequivocal.

 

[GreasyMonkey]

YESSSSsssss......!!!!

He is GONE!!!!

 

[classicomano]

Pat completely thew LA under the bus, its all over.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Lance armstrong has no place in cycling

That's the line that will be shown and quoted everywhere.

 

[Benotti69]

UCI throw Armstrong under the bus!



trying to save themsleves.....

 

[webvan]

Another link for the video here : http://video.eurosport.fr/cyclisme/armstrong-le-verdict-de-l-uci_vid252660/video.shtml

Wow, FatPat almost made me cry when he thanked the cyclists who testified...guess he needs to pull his lawsuit against Landis and Kimmage then.

 

[ValleyFlowers]

Confirms USADA's recommended Sanctions for LA and also for the other riders who testified and were given Sanctions by USADA.

 

[peterh]

McQuaid looks like someone hit him over the head with a battle axe, but still there is no way to get rid of him.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Lance Armstrong, the greatest fraud in sports history.

 

[Bosco10]

Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang is broadcasting the UCI press conference scheduled at 1300 CET:
http://www.vg.no/sport/sykkel/artikkel.php?artid=10055017

This stream works for me. I am in the US. Thanks

 

[ValleyFlowers]

McQuaid answers a question about how cyling fans have been let down by the UCI by again claiming more and better testing takes place today. "What was available to the UCI at the time [1999-2005] was much more limited to what we have now. If we had the tools we have now then, there would have much much less [doping] going on."

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Pat has several times drawn distinction between uci approach pre his tenure. Heiny no like

 

[meat puppet]

Phil, Wiggo and Millar as the ambassadors of the new and clean. Dang, have I heard this before.

The suits have changed but the old ties survive.

 

[The Hitch]

Switched on 2 minutes ago. Mcquaid is lying through his teeth.

 

[ValleyFlowers]

McQuaid on whether he and the UCI should apologize: "I'm sorry we couldn't have caught every damn one of them at the time and thrown them out."

McQuaid says when he took over at the UCI in 2005, after Armstrong's seventh 'win', his main priority was to overcome a culture of doping. He suggests progress is being made under his watch, but there is still more work to be done. He has no intention of resigning from his post.

 

[GreasyMonkey]

Switched on 2 minutes ago. Mcquaid is lying through his teeth.

So give us some news.....??

 

[ValleyFlowers]

Will UCI support efforts to get prize money back from Tour de France wins? "This is one of the things that we'll be discussing at a special committee on Friday. We'll need a change of rules."

 

[webvan]

Management committee will meet on Friday to decide :
- prize money issuers
- reattribute victories

 

[Descender]

Why can't the French journalists ask in English just like everybody else?

 

[luckyboy]

"Lance deserves to be forgotten"

omg made an involuntary noise then

 

[ValleyFlowers]

"Lance deserves to be forgotten"

omg made an involuntary noise then

Which end did the noise issue from? top or bottom?

 

[martinvickers]

The UCI is a swiss organisation, with a french name - it's actually more odd that McQuaid won't answer in french.