It should be BC's turn

10-04.-2005, 01:59 AM	#1
Braveheart Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5	It should be BC's turn In terms of competitive cycling British Columbia is the most dynamic province in Canada. It has Canada's best road team: Symmetrics. It has Canada's best mountain bike team: Rocky Mountain. It currently has Canada’s only covered cycling track: Burnaby (London's Forest City track coming this month). It will once again host the Canadian National Road Cycling Championships: Kamloops. Yet BC has never had a President of the Canadian Cycling Association (CCA). Saskatchewan has, and has always had, the worst competitive cycling scene in the country (the Sports Editor of The Regina Leader Post described it as "less than vibrant"), yet the current President of the CCA Bill Kinash is from Regina, Saskatchewan. What's wrong with that picture? It makes no sense. Why should a guy who spent 20 years with the Saskatchewan Cycling Association and in that time held only one national road race, a Master's Nationals in 1991, be in charge of running the sport for all our country? British Columbia has THE best candidate to be the next CCA President: Lesley Tomlinson. Ms. Tomlinson runs the Rocky Mountain Cycling Team, probably the best in all the country. She is an international calibre rider in her own right and has been for 15 years. Only last year she won a World 24-hour Endurance Championshp. She launched a BC High School Cycling program that has over 1500 participants, again the most successful in Canada. She is actively involved the Sprokids program and one of its biggest proponents. Ms. Tomlinson is also on the CCA Board of Directors (don't hold it against her!). The media in British Columbia should be looking to Ms. Tomlinson as we head to the national championships in Kamloops at the end of June. British Columbia should use the Nationals to promote Ms. Tomlinson as a candidate to the 700 or more athletes who will attend the national in June. Riders, team managers, race organizers and volunteers in the sport should get involved in the selection of the next President of the Canadian Cycling Association instead of the choice being made by ten provincial president nobody knows at an annual meeting basically behind closed doors in Whitehorse, Yukon next November. For the last three years the CCA has been a shambles. It squandered a $15,000,000 marketing opportunity in the 2003 Worlds Road Championships in Hamilton walking away without one new sponsor. A disgrace. The CCA has embarrassed and insulted the sport by selling all four national championships (road, mtb, track and BMX) and the National Team to Tim Horton’s for $100,000 (this is a best guess estimate because the CCA refuses to acknowledge or admit what the exact figure is). The CCA has been paralyzed by inaction. CCA President Bill Kinash told Judy Monchuk of Canadian Press in an interview carried nation-wide that he and the CCA have no plans to market the Olympic Gold Medal by won by Lori Ann Meunzer in Athens in 2004. No plans! Furthermore, it took CCA President Bill Kinash two months to phone Ms. Meunzer to congratulate her. Prime Minister Martin did it the day she won. Numerous CCA employees including three coaches have resigned. The former (or current, depending upon who you talk to) Director General Pierre Hutsebaut is in administrative limbo, hiding on sick leave for a year or more to avoid being fired. Mr. Hutsebaut was well enough to attend the Quebec Provincial road championship and to be photographed at the awards ceremony by the podium, however. The current Chief Operating Officer of the CCA association has no formal cycling experience. The Marketing and Communication Director position has been left vacant for two years. How can you find new sponsors if you have nobody even looking? The CCA has go so far as to remove any reference of the position from its web site. It used to say "vacant", now the position is gone completely. That might explain why both the CCA and Ski Canada get about $1,200,000 in annual funding from Sport Canada but Ski Canada has a total budget of $13,000,000 while the CCA has a budget of merely $1,600,000. Ski Canada can find about $12,000,000 in sponsorship and other funds. The current CCA can manage only $600,000. Another disgrace. The CCA-Hamilton Foundation, touted in December 2003 as supposed to find new sponsors, partners and donors has not even been officially formed yet. Its first annual report due back in December 2004 has yet to be made public and most likely has not even been written. Cycling in this country cannot afford to be "led" for another three years by another policy-wonk, bureaucrat who proudly cites a brainstorming session in a hotel conference room as a highlight in his 2004 Annual Report or Christmas Greeting. It is British Columbia's turn to lead the sport of cycling in Canada and Lesley Tomlinson of BC should be its spokesperson. Ed Arzouian, St. Anicet, QC

12-04.-2005, 03:28 AM	#2
peeininnepean Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 41	Re: It should be BC's turn You call this "holding court" Eddie? Like you're some sort of king? What a friggin joke. You hijacked CC, then you hijacked Pedal, and now you're reduced to trying to hijack this... 'cept there's nothing to hijack. 4 views, 0 replies. 1 now, I guess. Get a life.

12-04.-2005, 03:44 AM	#3
Braveheart Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5	Re: It should be BC's turn Ahhh, but you read and commented and isn't that what counts most for you? Thx for reading.

12-04.-2005, 10:35 AM

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Re: It should be BC's turn

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Originally Posted by Braveheart

Ahhh, but you read and commented and isn't that what counts most for you?

Thx for reading.

If this is a win for you, Eddie, I hate to think what the losses look like.

12-04.-2005, 11:08 PM	#5
Eddie Arzouian Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Binghamton,NY Posts: 394	Re: It should be BC's turn Thanks for your continued attention. Don't forget to read the new thread on White Rock. Oh, wait, I'm sure you have already. Good for you. Tell you friends. This is the place to be if they want to launch personal attacks on me with witty one-liners.....

13-04.-2005, 07:53 AM	#6
Eddie Arzouian Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Binghamton,NY Posts: 394	Re: It should be BC's turn Here is an example to the depth people will sink to continue their personal attacks. A guy follows me over from Pedal Forum and creates a new Hotmail address: ----- Original Message ----- From: peeinin nepean To: ed@arzouian.com Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:03 PM Subject: Loser! Man u are such a loser! Sad! ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Arzouian To: peeinin nepean Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:50 PM Subject: Re: Loser! Yes, certainly with a username as you have chosen, you would be a good judge of that! I'm certainly you know all about losing.... Who went through all the trouble of creating a Hotmail address to hide his real name and email me off-line to avoid continuing the thread? I hope it was worth it. Yup, there is something sad about it all. I agree..... I will be posting this exchange, Dimwit. See ya!

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