UCI in trouble?

[Rueda Tropical]

After years of corruption and enabling doping, is the UCI finally coming under pressure as a result of the USADA investigation?

Former WADA president Pound calls for 'truth and reconciliation' for cycling:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pound-calls-for-truth-and-reconciliation-for-cycling

Kimmage on the UCI:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/kimmage-uci-needs-root-and-branch-surgery

USADA case against Armstrong could damage UCI, Ashenden says:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/usada-case-against-armstrong-could-damage-uci-ashenden-says

I don't care how many cyclists get busted. Until they clean house at the top nothing will change.

[FlashUNC]

Completely agree. Part of me hopes Pat McQuaid will keep stonewalling, allowing the IOC to ban cycling from the Olympics. Maybe then we'll get some real change in the sport.

[CunegoFan]

You can hope but count on Verbruggen and his stooge being in power for a very long time. It will take something nuclear.

International sports federations are structured to keep the guys at top in power. An example is Max Mosley, former head of the FIA. He was caught on hours of video with five or six hookers in a sadmasochistic Nazi concentration camp cosplay. To make things worse, his father was the head of the fascist party of Britain in the 30s and counted ol' Adolf as a personal friend. He survived a no-confidence vote due to all the small, non-European countries that make up the motorsport federation. What ultimately brought him down had nothing to do with being a closet fascist and sick pervert. His autocratic rule made him enough enemies that the teams and Ecclestone pushed him out. It was more personal than anything else.

Things will get interesting if the teams are serious about going forward with a new league in 2014. That would deeply cut into the UCI's revenue. It would make keeping the McQuaid regime have a large cost.

[Rueda Tropical]

WADA and the IOC are the only leverage against the UCI. Getting dumped from the Olympics would make the UCI as it is unsustainable.

Internally I don't see anything happening. Everyone with just a few exceptions is dependent on a corrupt UCI to allow the system of doping to continue. At this point in the minds of the dopers and their enablers the success of the support is dependent on doping. The spectacle is what puts the suckers in the seats -it's become Wrestlemania (http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania).

[Elefantino]

The spectre here is that, if you take the case to its logical extreme, l'affaire Lance will eventually bring down professional cycling as we know it.

The question that arises from that is, bad thing or good thing?

[e-RICHIE]

The spectre here is that, if you take the case to its logical extreme, l'affaire Lance will eventually bring down professional cycling as we know it.

The question that arises from that is, bad thing or good thing?

If you are asking for an either/or, I say it's a good thing atmo.

[PQJ]

The spectre here is that, if you take the case to its logical extreme, l'affaire Lance will eventually bring down professional cycling as we know it.

The question that arises from that is, bad thing or good thing?

Most definitely a good thing. Burn it down and rebuild from scratch. This is the beginning of the end of the UCI.

[Fixed]

I say give it to the badger
Cheers

[Rueda Tropical]

I say give it to the badger
Cheers

I say we get the badger to toss McQuaid off a TdF podium.

[bikerboy337]

He'd toughen things up a bit, huh? :banana:



I say give it to the badger
Cheers