If you want to see inept (and/or allegedly corrupt), four letters - FIFA. They must be aware what is going on and do - zero. UCI is not perfect by a long way but do actually ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
So that's all right then!
[WADA - first proposals to all the sports governing bodies, I think it was Copenhagen 2003. Sepp waddled over to Hein and they both walked out of one of the first sessions and then came back in after break and together stated to Dick, that they did not want blanket 2 year bans but wanted to be able to treat each case on its merit (like the 6 month bans handed out in cycling starting Oct each year) and were not in favour of out of competition testing proposals, all these being fine for amateur sports or less demanding sports. For professional football and professional cycling they would not work. We do not want to allow them to be introduced to our sports. When did FIFA eventually sign -2008 and even then with some special exemptions. You are entirely right and no sane person should have has any doubt about Sepp and FIFA. ]
No it is not alright. It is completely rubbish and we know that the doping arms race will be well advanced wherever PEDs can add advantage. Undoubtedly we can both immediately name 4 sports where PED abuse must be rife but there has not been a single bust in the days since EPO became the drug of choice. But just like Floyd and Tyler doing drugs because everyone else does, does not make their actions any less criminal because they don't perjure in court and use the legal system to bully and intimidate like Lance, so in comparison, in their sweet little, but highly distorted and disturbed minds. they must be "angels", so, the UCI, running a sport where the cat is so obviously out of the bag, cannot make excuses "we are rubbish but look over there they are even more rubbish than we are, they make us look good". The UCI board need to change their attitude. They need to change it big and they need to change it quick. Incremental c r a p is just an excuse for not having the bottle to deal with it. Kick out Pat, tell him he has been in the seat too long for any good he has done and the same for the rest of the bunch unless they can stomach the purging of the system. Cookson, by not having the bottle to actually call on Pat and not go for reform big style, in the last 12 months, shows that he is no agent for change. To date he has not shown resolve.
To move forward from metaphors from the 17th and early 20th century, to a genre you may prefer, the UCI board are just like the line of the song - the "Law-man, beating up the wrong guy" UCI prosecuting Kimmage, It would be dead easy for Cookson - next meeting - Pat - it is dead simple, either the most humble apology to Kimmage or you go. You have 5 minutes to decide, we are going outside, join us there when you have made up your mind. Even if, and I doubt it would happen, nobody joins Cookson, he can leave and tell the press what he did. Pat and the rest of the gang will then be ripped apart by the press and Cookson can start with a fresh(ish) sheet of paper. He just needs to grow some.
Tygart is not grandstanding, he has enough evidence to show the link - Lance to Hein and Pat, but it needs Lance to tell it, to make it all stick. Lance is just sorting out where he can put some fire-breaks in the forest before he uses that info in the bargain. It'll come, like the barbarians to Rome. It is just a case of when.
I could not find it but about 3 or 4 years years ago a poster on the clinic put in a post on the Lance story a great little line. "Boys, this just got serious, nothing is going to stop this now. Time to pull a case of beers and the chair and sit and watch. This is going to be one hell of a show."
