Cycling maybe excluded from the Olympics

Thomas Bach, the Vice president of the olympic comitee is saying that due to the recent doping incidents cycling may be excluded.
I think that's rediculous, cycling is not the only sport with this problem. It's just the only sport who does anything about it.

The IOC are full of crap. If they exclude cycling from the next Olympics due to doping, let's also exclude track and field, swimming, weightlifting, amongst others to round out the games. Every sport has the dopers and scandals, why pick on cycling? At least there's no chance of the riders being 14y/o's. IOC bastards.

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jeszus how many times have we heard this. Its actually the IOC's way of telling the UCI and associated cycling bodies to start covering up the doping and the positive tests.

Yes let's take cycling out of the program so we can make more room for different weightlifting sessions. Boy that's a clean sport!

Just saw a clip today from one of our sketch comedy shows...the guy was reading sports news:
"Breaking news from the weightlifting WCs: the doping sample of an Ukrainian athlete didn't contain ANYTHING illegal!"

EDIT: Oh yes, forgot to mention the clean guy who easily broke the 100m WR, having enough time to wave his hands in the air in the last ~30m.

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IIRC either John Fahey or some other monger from the IOC made a similar call during the Olympics about cycling and weightlifting and Jacque Rogge essentially told them to stfu.

Hein Verbruggen is No 3 in the IOC power structure, at present.

That might stop any move by the IOC to ban cycling.

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morelike hypocrisy.

That's a good point. I certainly hope that he can do something since Olympic cycling is basically the only cycling event one can see here in Finland if you don't pay for Canal+ with Eurosport. Even the national championships get just under a minute on the evening sports news.
After the Beijing road race, many people came to me and said "hey, just saw the road race yesterday, that was a great race" even though they don't even have a bike themselves. So the Olympics really represents the majority of the exposure cycling gets in non-cycling countries and that single event might get people intrested in cycling. (I bought a road bike myself after the Athens 2004 games )

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Yes, the Olympic Road race since it went professional in 1996 has been great viewing and I'm sure that it is the only opportunity for many people to get to see road cycling on TV.

I agree with you - it would be a pity to see cycling removed from the games.

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.."But finally the last thing I’ll say to the people who don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics. I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. [I]I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets - this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it" - Armstrong 2005 TDF
morelike hypocrisy.

Sorry, Lim...
Hein Verbruggen resigns IOC membership

Aug 24, 5:56 am EDT

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BEIJING (AP)—Hein Verbruggen, who led the IOC’s oversight panel for the Beijing Games, has relinquished his membership of the International Olympic Committee.

The 67-year-old Dutchman resigned to seek a “quieter life,” IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said Sunday. He will remain an “honorary member.”

Verbruggen, former head of the international cycling union, or UCI, had served as an IOC member since 1996.

He briefly left the IOC when he stepped down as UCI president in 2005, but was re-elected to the IOC in 2006 when he became executive vice president of the cycling body.

Verbruggen notified the executive board of his departure Saturday, and it was announced to the full IOC assembly on Sunday at the close of the Beijing Games.


Since 2001, Verbruggen served as chairman of the IOC coordination commission for Beijing. He led the panel that paid regular visits to the Chinese capital to monitor logistical preparations.