Who should replace Pat McQuaid ?

[BroDeal]

Is Elmer Fudd available? He would be more effective at hunting dopews.

Barring him, I nominate FLandis. It would be hilarious seeing someone who was screwed by the system take his anger out on the inside mafia.

 

[Vonn Brinkman]

It does not matter: anyone.

 

[Beech Mtn]

Alexandre Vinokourov.

He wouldn't pull BS moves like having reporters come to Switzerland and showing them a receipt across the room. He knows how to deal with bureaucracy to get what he wants. He would stand up for the rights of riders. But when the time came to deal with a smarmy DS and his little protest on the final day of the Tour, there would be no 3-month wait to announce a suspension. Vino would get out there in the road and bust some heads live on TV.

 

[alpine_chav]

dont forget a nice Swiss bank account

The bank account Contador was told to put the money into?

 

[JMBeaushrimp]

Colin Powell or any good citizen not from cycling.

Yeah, he'd be perfect! He's never lied to anyone over anything as paltry as starting massive ground wars to pointlessly kill hundreds of thousands of civilians...

With his palmares, he'd fit right into the UCI structure without needing any prep at all. Great suggestion!

 

[Siriuscat]

Tony B Liar is not up to much these days...he'd fit right in.

Seriously, someone like Lemond or Landis

 

[Anonymous]

Lemond for me. I very much doubt he would want the job though. Head of the UCI isnt just about anti-doping, and although Greg would seem the ideal person in that circumstance, is he the best man for the job in other areas.

What Im probably saying is that the UCI should have nothing to do with doping controls at all and it should be handled by an outside body. Maybe that could be Lemonds first job in chance. Hand BP and AntiDoping over to an outside body.

 

[mtb Dad]

Just to fan the flames, maybe consider what McQuaid started with, and how far he has come. Before he started, Armstrong was paying large amounts of cash to the UCI, there were no chaperones in anti-doping, UCI testing was much more porous than the recent WADA report suggests, no passport. There had only been one president since FIAC and FICP merged, and that was the same guy who had been FICP president through the 1988 Delgado get-out-of-jail-free-card days, and before. Who came out of the doping prep school of the Mars-Flandria chem factory in the 70's.

Now we have the UCI inviting WADA to review up close its testing (remember the fights between VerDRUGgen and Pound?), UCI responding positively to a positive but still pretty critical report (see today's news), forging ahead with the passport (however flawed) that even WADA hesitated to back (but now do, with changes), we have chaperones, guys getting caught, serious declines in superhuman tour performances, old faces sliding back and new ones emerging. It's pretty different. Did McQuaid do that? Maybe not all; there was heavy IOC, WADA and gov't legal presure, but he hasn't balked at everything like VerDRUGgen did with the WADA code, the 98 festina crisis. The UCI is still clearly finding it's feet in anti-doping, as the WASA report suggests, but it's not flat on it's back like in 2005.

Could we do better? Probably. But maybe having a reformed old guard guy getting us part of the way there was what we needed. And maybe if he got support (I know, I know, that will take biting of tongues and patience), he'd go farther?

 

[mtb Dad]

What Im probably saying is that the UCI should have nothing to do with doping controls at all and it should be handled by an outside body. Maybe that could be Lemonds first job in chance. Hand BP and AntiDoping over to an outside body.

The WADA report says in several places and ways that the improvements will come from using intelligence to target test, something that is not happening anywhere near enough now.

How would an outside agency track that? Maybe if the passport was WADA's too, but even then you need insiders to manage even logistical stuff like access; the tour is spread over 100's of km each day, just to find riders. I'm sure in time WADA could do it, but we also need an anti-doping culture in cycling. Maybe if there was an element in cycling that really believed in tracking down the cheaters, vs. sympathizing with the riders for the inconveniences of anti-doping, we would really be different?

We have to get over the hump of believing the system is heavy-handed to our heroes, and start believing in catching cheaters. I don't know how an outside agency will do that.

 

[washedup]

Now we have the UCI inviting WADA to review up close its testing (remember the fights between VerDRUGgen and Pound?).......

They invited WADA as a way of avoiding AFDL. Of course, WADA found the exact same problems AFDL found.

Other than that, let us keep on topic of various potential new leaders of the UCI.

 

[Darryl Webster]

Lemond would be the perfect Ambassador as well as a guy that I believe would be incorruptable .
On a less serious note, Paul Kimmage would be interesting, Micheal Ashendon or Peter Keen would have some comprehensive understanding and Homer Simpson would slide right in there and no one would even notice!

 

[Bike Opera]

Lemond would be the perfect Ambassador as well as a guy that I believe would be incorruptable .
On a less serious note, Paul Kimmage would be interesting, Micheal Ashendon or Peter Keen would have some comprehensive understanding and Homer Simpson would slide right in there and no one would even notice!

Lol. Homer Simpson

How about the very tenacious Betsy Andreu?

This woman has proven that she can't be bought or intimidated...just the kind of leader the UCI desperately needs. She'll lay down the law and won't put up with any omerta cr@p from anyone. I think Frankie would agree.

 

[Tyler'sTwin]

Wolfgang Pichler

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showpost.php?p=359596&postcount=74

 

[RobbieCanuck]

Uci

As with most threads some suggestions are ridiculous - Landis, Lemond, Armstrong etc. There is no way Pound, Powell, Blair or Novitsky would want the job. Novitsky is too valuable where he is.

Some suggest Wolfgang Pichler and Patrice Clerc. Excuse my ignorance but if someone could tell us a little about these guys, that might help.

If it is to be a former cyclist, it needs to be somebody who has never tested positive. S/he needs to understand cycling and preferrably a person who can balance the need for cleaning up the sport with the legitimate concerns of the pro cyclists. And is not influenced by the money and sponsors behind cycling.

Oh yeah and someone who does not put his/her foot in their mouth every time they speak to the press.

 

[Race Radio]

As with most threads some suggestions are ridiculous - Landis, Lemond, Armstrong etc. There is no way Pound, Powell, Blair or Novitsky would want the job. Novitsky is too valuable where he is.

Some suggest Wolfgang Pichler and Patrice Clerc. Excuse my ignorance but if someone could tell us a little about these guys, that might help.

If it is to be a former cyclist, it needs to be somebody who has never tested positive. S/he needs to understand cycling and preferrably a person who can balance the need for cleaning up the sport with the legitimate concerns of the pro cyclists. And is not influenced by the money and sponsors behind cycling.

Oh yeah and someone who does not put his/her foot in their mouth every time they speak to the press.

Patrice Clerc is the former head of the Tour de France. He knows how to run a large, global organization, is firmly anti doping, and is well respected in the sport.

When Armstrong returned to the sport he flew to Paris to meet with the ASO. He said he would ride the Tour......if Clerc was fired, which he was a few weeks later.

 

[Archibald]

 

[Race Radio]

I think Verburggen is tied up with his IOC job

 

[Fausto's Schnauzer]

Perhaps....

...it's too much for one person and should go to a committee?

 

[tubularglue]

It does not matter: anyone.

ding ding ding

correct

~ We have a winner ~

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Completely agree with 131313, Sylvia Shenk immediately came to mind. Patrice Clerc would be my 2nd choice. But Shenk is capable of stepping in from day one and cleaning up with a fair, unbiased, no-nonsense style. Clerc could step in immediately as well.

LeMond would make a very good interim adviser or senior board member, as he's incorruptibly - the Eliot Ness of cycling. But I can't see him heading up the UCI. Same with Ashenden, Novitzky, Bassons, etc.

Would like to See Anne Gripper come back under a Shenk or Clerc led UCI. She a smart woman who obviously could see the writing on the wall and got out right before things got ugly.

 

[Benotti69]

Bassons. End of.

 

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately...

Completely agree with 131313, Sylvia Shenk immediately came to mind. Patrice Clerc would be my 2nd choice. But Shenk is capable of stepping in from day one and cleaning up with a fair, unbiased, no-nonsense style. Clerc could step in immediately as well.

LeMond would make a very good interim adviser or senior board member, as he's incorruptibly - the Eliot Ness of cycling. But I can't see him heading up the UCI. Same with Ashenden, Novitzky, Bassons, etc.

Would like to See Anne Gripper come back under a Shenk or Clerc led UCI. She a smart woman who obviously could see the writing on the wall and got out right before things got ugly.

All good suggestions, but "the problem" we are talking about neither begins nor ends with who runs the UCI. Busting a few dopers, or crooked UCI officials cannot fix it. Can anything, or anyone?

 

[sublimit]

All good suggestions, but "the problem" we are talking about neither begins nor ends with who runs the UCI. Busting a few dopers, or crooked UCI officials cannot fix it. Can anything, or anyone?

Well, disbanding the UCI could be a better option.

Maybe get some people that know what they are doing put in charge, enthusiasts not corrupt dummies like we have now. I realise most sports administrators are renowned to be useless but that doesn't change the fact they need to go.

 

[Cobblestoned]

 

[mtb Dad]

They invited WADA as a way of avoiding AFDL. Of course, WADA found the exact same problems AFDL found.

Other than that, let us keep on topic of various potential new leaders of the UCI.

True. But WADA also hinted that AFLD was partly responsible for the disagreement. And it's not like WADA has never called out the UCI. This time they saw fit to be very encouraging, as well as point out improvements, however obvious they are to us.

This is relevant to the point of the suggestion, which is, 'McQuaid needs replacing'. I'm not sure of that, when I compare him to his predeccesor, and the positive tone of the WADA report. He's a bit like a bumper car bouncing off issues with less than perfect results, but much much better than before. I heard from a respected former UCI anti-doping insider that McQuaid is sincere and that like anyone, he needs to know he has support for the things he does. Remember, he is surrounded at races by hard core old time dopers, doper DS's, and doper docs. Imagine the avalanche of crap he hears from them? If doing the passport, the Code, and the WADA deal loses him his job, what's that say to the next prez?