If they were accountable there would be nobody left.

21-04.-2005, 12:20 AM	#1
Eddie Arzouian Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Binghamton,NY Posts: 394	If they were accountable there would be nobody left. After the Canadian Olympic Committee announced it new plan to improve summer sports the Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) felt it necessary to deliver its own platitudes. However their plan raise some concern. Steve Lacelle, the Chief Operating Officer of the CCA, who has no formal cycling experience at all, none, no racing, no coaching, no organizing, no volunteering, nothing, said, "The CCA is fully supportive of this initiative and believes that if we are to succeed in providing our athletes and coaches with better financial and technical support, we need to develop and implement a comprehensive plan that sets clear goals and holds us accountable to meeting them." If we were to hold the CCA accountable there would be nobody left there. Our biggest concern should be that the CCA has NEVER held itself accountable and never met any of its set goals. Current CCA President Bill Kinash announced in 2003 the CCA-Hamilton Foundation would be looking for new sponsors, partners and donors. Kinash later announced the Foundation would deliver its first Annual Report last December. None of that has been done. Nothing has happened. Not one new sponsor has been found in about five years. We are not even sure the Foundation Committee is even properly constituted. They won't tell us. But yet Kinash is still President. Is that accountability? Back in December 2003 Kinash acknowledged leaving the Marketing and Communications Director position vacant for eight months a mistake. So what did Kinash do? He left that position vacant for another 17 months. So, after 24 months, there is still no Communications and Marketing Director at the CCA. Worse the CCA has now removed all reference to this former position probably in hopes of making people forget it was there and ignored and vacant. But Bill Kinash is still there. The CCA web site has a merchandising link that has been inoperable for about nine months. The CCA has never sold one single item of merchandise. But Bill Kinash is still there. Bill Kinash told a Canadian Press reporter in a nationally distributed interview that the CCA has NO PLANS to market the Olympic Gold Medal won by Lori Ann Muenzer. No plans. So how does the CCA plan to provide more financial assistance to athletes. But Bill Kinash is still there. Once again it looks like Canada will only have 2/3's of a true national championship in Kamloops. We still do not have an officially recognized national criterium championship, a very popular, media-friendly and marketable title, an essential tool in any development plan of the CCA. But Bill Kinash is still there. The CCA's by-laws and/or constitution are not posted anywhere on its web site. The CCA will not provide a current copy of those by-laws. The CCA will not explain publicly its election process for its President. How is that being accountable? Yet Bill Kiansh is still there. The CCA will not post any financials on its website and it will not offer any transparency with regard to its current poor sponsorship deals. How is that being accountable? Yet Bill Kinash is still there. What do we get? We get undefined platitudes from a COO who knows next to nothing about the sport he is running. But hey, he has an MBA as we can see in his press release below! Who signs a sports press release with his MBA credentials? What a joke! The blind leading the blind. We don't even have a one-eyed man. Maybe we don't need one. Elect Lesley Tomlinson of BC as the first woman President to run the CCA. End the bullshit. Ed Arzouian, St. Anicet, QC Here is the press release: big on platitudes, devoid of specifics but what else can we expect it came from an MBA! "Own the Podium" provided by the CCA April 19, 2005 - The CCA (Canadian Cycling Association) and its high performance summer sport partners participated in a one-day planning event in Regina on April 14th to discuss the creation of an "Own the Podium" program for summer sports. The CCA is fully supportive of this initiative and believes that if we are to succeed in providing our athletes and coaches with better financial and technical support, we need to develop and implement a comprehensive plan that sets clear goals and holds us accountable to meeting them. As a leading summer sport, the CCA will provide the support needed to help this group succeed. Active participation in this new group is another step in the right direction for the Association. Stephen R. Lacelle, MBA Chief Operating Officer

22-04.-2005, 01:27 AM	#2
Eddie Arzouian Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Binghamton,NY Posts: 394	Re: If they were accountable there would be nobody left. Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:50 AM Subject: Maybe I misunderstood Wait, in my email above maybe I misunderstood. When I pointed out that Steve Lacelle, the new Chief Operating Officer of the Canadian Cycling Association, who has no experience whatsoever at any level in the sport of cycling, was signing his press releases with "MBA" I thought it was in reference to his Masters of Business Administration. It has been pointed out that I may have been mistaken. I'm told that perhaps Steve was offering an acronym for "More Bullshit Again". Sorry for the confusion. Ed Arzouian, Bachelor of Arts in North American Studies from McGill University '87... oh yeah, and 33 years experience in cycling across North America and Europe as a tourist, racer, mechanic, coach, manager, co-founder and owner of Canada's first and most successful pro team, reporter/photographer, race organizer, promoter, bike and parts distributor and importer, race service moto driver and fan.

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