UCI's response to USADA report

[luckyboy]

Verbiest just said the corroborating evidence from 09 + 10 was ignored.

So the bio passport is a piece of ****

 

[Descender]

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

The UCI is an international organisation.

 

[luckyboy]

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

haha, top, kind of a small squeal

 

[ValleyFlowers]

Which part of the report most surprised McQuaid? "I have to admit I was sickened by what I read in the Usada report. The story of how Zabriskie was coerced, and in some ways forced, into doping is mind-boggling."

How will Armstrong be remembered?
"Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling now.

(this might be editorial comment from live text feed through http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/22/uci-lance-armstrong-press-conference-live
To an extent I agree, but surely you keep him in mind as an example and a cautionary lesson for the future."

 

[Don Quixote]

Over to the lawyer for every difficult q.

Why?

 

[Cramps]

Were there any questions about Armstrong's donations to UCI?

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Good question by the french woman regarding Floyd landis. CN not there?

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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

because they don't speak english

 

[ValleyFlowers]

How can cycling go forward when some of the men involved with the running of teams are former dopers? "It is possible that people who have made mistakes in the past can help the sport in the future."

 

[webvan]

Does he regret not listinening to Landis in 2010 ? "WE DID" ! hum...if it had been up to UCI this would have been buried. Apparently they didn't like that he accused them of covering up the 2001 positive test...hum, ok. The real problem of course is that no one trusts McQuaid, he needs to go.

 

[skimazk]

if he said there is no place for former dopers the likes of st millar and vaughters would need to go as well. Personally i have no issues with that, but i know quite a few here worship the appostals miller and vaughters

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

How can cycling go forward when some of the men involved with the running of teams are former dopers? "It is possible that people who have made mistakes in the past can help the sport in the future."

this is very much true and happens in al layers of society, thank god. or else the world would be a mess. still I think after all this there is no place for guys like bruyneel and lance, ferrari and some others

 

[biker jk]

Verbiest just said the corroborating evidence from 09 + 10 was ignored.

So the bio passport is a piece of ****

That's amusing because on the UCI web site they claim that no one can cheat with the biological passport.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

any questions yet about uci covering up positive tests of lance?

 

[ValleyFlowers]

A question asked about what to do with those previously involved in doping who now run teams:
"There are two views on that," says McQuaid. "One view, that Team Sky take, is that anyone involved should have nothing to do with the sport. The other view is that people who have made mistakes in the past can help in the future."

 

[ValleyFlowers]

any questions yet about uci covering up positive tests of lance?

Philippe Verbiest, the UCI lawyer, in answer to a question about Landis's statements in the report and the UCI's decision to sue him previously. "The only problem UCI had with Floyd Landis was him saying the positive test had been covered up. There was no positive test," says Verbiest.

 

[cocteau_ireland]

Pat affirms no conflict of interest in being both the regulatory and promotional body of the sport.

 

[webvan]

any questions yet about uci covering up positive tests of lance?

Came up when they mentioned Landis, as much as I hate UCI there does not seem to be any evidence that they did...now the antidoping machine and Verbruggen payoffs, well...

 

[Don Quixote]

Insists on retaining control of regulation and anti-doping.

The sport's ****ed then.

 

[luckyboy]

UCI Management Committee will meet on Friday to decide whether TDFs will be left blank or if they will be inherited etc..
Pat said they have authority for that.

 

[martinvickers]

Get the strong feeling Pat is preparing the "not on my watch" defence...

 

[webvan]

Came up when they mentioned Landis, as much as I hate UCI there does not seem to be any evidence that they did...now the antidoping machine and Verbruggen payoffs, well...

Our only "hope" is that Dopestrong will go ape**** and spill the beans on the UCI and Heiny payoffs...I wouldn't put it past him at this point.

 

[peterh]

If you can't cut the head of the snake, it will survive. A part of me admires what the UCI is doing here, but cycling is dead. They are beating a dead horse, and to me it looks as if they are going to continue beating it.

 

[Don Quixote]

Quotes JFK - omfg.

 

[Jalina]

First Lance quoting MLK, now Pat quoting JFK. FFS.



eta: Haha.... too quick for me Don!