So todays the day...what will the UCI say?

[tigger]

Good well written perspective from Robert Millar here

A great article which sums it up in all its doom and gloom. I didn't know Robert Millar had been found, last I heard he was a reclusive transsexual!?

 

[tigger]

Great piece. Really excellent - it seems quite clear in retrospect that the 50% haemocrit level was an invitation to dope, given that is was already so high above the natural highest levels. There's a simply answer to this one: reduce the permitted levels to something near the high normal levels (45% would be generous but much safer if health is what you are worried about) plus really put the biological passport system to work on this and other base values.

I was thinking exactly the same thing whilst reading that, reduce to 45%

 

[raindog]

I didn't know Robert Millar had been found, last I heard he was a reclusive transsexual!?

That may well be, but he's been doing that blog on CN for some time

 

[Flying_Monkey]

A great article which sums it up in all its doom and gloom. I didn't know Robert Millar had been found, last I heard he was a reclusive transsexual!?

He was never lost, he knew exactly where he was. The rest of the speculation is apparently not what he wants, so how about we leave it out?

 

[tigger]

That may well be, but he's been doing that blog on CN for some time

Great, I'll catch up on some of his reading. My first proper bike was a Robert Millar Peugeot ;-]

(Oh, and does anyone know why iPads don't gave emoticons?)

 

[Norm]

(Oh, and does anyone know why iPads don't gave emoticons?)

Because evangelists have no emotion. There are issues with the way that the posting box appears on Safari browser on the iOS. I think it should appear if you use another browser, or, what I've done is learn the codes (words like giggle and thumbsup and shy etc wrapped in :: ) of the emots you use most frequently.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

A great article which sums it up in all its doom and gloom. I didn't know Robert Millar had been found, last I heard he was a reclusive transsexual!?

Dinnae believe everything you read in the papers

 

[Smokin Joe]

A great article which sums it up in all its doom and gloom. I didn't know Robert Millar had been found, last I heard he was a reclusive transsexual!?

He isn't.

 

[tigger]

Dinnae believe everything you read in the papers

Aye. In fact I read this in his biog by Richard Moore I think? If memory serves Moore was uncertain about whether there was any substance to it?

Anyway, no need to debate it here I suppose. Sorry I mentioned it...

 

[400bhp]

you would have, but for one small consideration.

Switzerland.

See also FIFA, IOC

As Thom and others have said, Pat and Hein can't be got rid of just like that. It may be that other sponsors will follow the Rabobank example (I'm absolutely convinced that Rabo were pointing the finger at the UCI), and, if the dosh to the smaller national federations dries up there'll be some squeaking

It may be that national bodies could decide to withdraw. I'd love to know what BC have got to say about this.

Gah..

Not that stupid are they.

 

[martint235]

you would have, but for one small consideration.

Switzerland.

See also FIFA, IOC

As Thom and others have said, Pat and Hein can't be got rid of just like that. It may be that other sponsors will follow the Rabobank example (I'm absolutely convinced that Rabo were pointing the finger at the UCI), and, if the dosh to the smaller national federations dries up there'll be some squeaking

It may be that national bodies could decide to withdraw. I'd love to know what BC have got to say about this.

Sorry but I think BC is as complicit in this as the FA is in the behaviour of FIFA, ie let's not upset the applecart.

Sponsors with almost national affiliation such as Rabobank and hopefully Sky are the only hope really unless ASO can be persuaded to lead and I'm not sure they are better than the UCI

 

[Bollo]

It looks like the UCI say one thing at the big conference and then decide to back-pedal just a little bit in the paperwork.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/oct/23/lance-armstrong-appeal-usada-uci

Apologies if this has already been posted

 

[johnr]

They are, at the very best, a petty bunch of self-serving b@st@rrrrdz.

dellzeq, on the other hand, may be on to something. Move the UCI from Geneva to, say, New Delhi and watch the resignations flood in. Or Wolverhampton. Or Sofia.

 

[400bhp]

They are, at the very best, a petty bunch of self-serving b@st@rrrrdz.

dellzeq, on the other hand, may be on to something. Move the UCI from Geneva to, say, New Delhi and watch the resignations flood in. Or Wolverhampton. Or Sofia.

Come on - we wouldn't wish that on our worse enemy would we.

 

[rich p]

Sorry but I think BC is as complicit in this as the FA is in the behaviour of FIFA, ie let's not upset the applecart.

You should read this to find out what Brian Cookson really thinks...

... http://www.cyclismas.com/2012/02/brian-cookson-asks-sir-chris-hoy-to-run-for-uci-president/

“Look, I sit on this ridiculous committee that might as well be 14 stones sitting around a boardroom with the biggest rock McQuaid at the head of the table. Do we get an opinion? Absolutely not"