CCA Legacy Fund: What project funded?

Eddie Arzouian

The CCA-Hamilton Legacy Fund from the 2003 Worlds was supposed to fund a project(s) this year. Did it?

Fausto Coppied

Seems like a good time to ask this again, what has been done with the $600,000 legacy fund from the 2003 World Road Championships?

Which projects have been funded?



Who is in charge of this money?



Are Pierre Hutsebaut and Brian Jolly still involved?



Is the interest being used to pad the CCA budget?



Where is the big annual event in Hamilton that was supposed to happen?



What has been happening at the McMaster Cycling Centre? Do they still have only 10 kids in Sprockids program in a city of 500,000 people?



Didn’t somebody tell you that we would never get answers to these questions?

Prairie Boy

My question is "What is Ed doing for Canadian Cycling?" He makes these claims (some only implied) that he knows all and that through him all things cycling would be paradise.

What he does is spend time sending emails to CCA sponsors attempting to convince them not to fund the CCA. The next step is to complain about the lack of new funding sources in the CCA. It might be that if Ed were not to send the emails that the CCA would be a healthier place, for sure it would be happier. How much time does he suck up when real work could be done. Is this not all about his ego and his dismissal?

Fausto Coppied

The CCA has sold the sport liKe a cheap whore to Tim horTons.

There is no way in hell that Tim Horton's should be getting nLL four discipline National championships and ALL four national teams for about $400,000.

That is a travesty.

It is an embarrassment.

Even the CCA knows it is a bad deal. They will not even make public the amount of the pitiful sponsorship.

Tim Horton's should be paying AT LEAST $400,000 PER DISCiPLINE OR $1,600,000 FOR WHAT IT GETS NOW.

TIM HORTON'S IS SCREWING US OVER.

Better to not take the sponsorship than to sell it for nothing.

Club Cycliste de Montreal got $300,000 in cash plus another $200,000 worth of material PER YEAR for ten guys for a private team back in 1990.

Prairie Boy

So, what I hear you saying, is that you, as one person, far removed from cycling, knows best and should be making the decisions for all cyclists in Canada. This is the motivation that prompts you to email CCA sponsors encouraging them to drop their sponsorship. It's great to have you on board! We need to remove all sponsorship before we can get new ones. This may be why you don't here from the CCA sponsorship person, they are busy trying to mend the bridges you break. Maybe if you kept to yourself they would have more time to work on new sponsorship?

Fausto Coppied

Far removed from cycling?????



Try "actively involved in competitive cycling for 33 years"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Mend bridges?



The marketing and communications people at the CCA have not even bothered in 8 months to list their supposed "new sponsors" on the CCA web site.



Go look Prairie Child. Look at the suppliers and partners, the have been the same fro years. Where are the new sponsors, where’s HR Block, where’s Delta Hotels, where's National Car Rental.



Furthermore, what have these sponsors even given the CCA????? A discount on your tax returns??? Is that it??? Did they give any cash???? Very unlikely since the CCA won’t even discuss it.



Lacelle was a failure and quit. Kim Sebrango is worse and she should be fired.



That should be the very first order of business of the new COO or Executive Director, to can her ass and get somebody with an understanding and passion fro the sport that they can communicate to sponsors and media.

Fausto Coppied

BTW, the situation as it now stands, is that you have one person who knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT CYCLING (Kim Sebrango) making the decisions for all of you.

Prairie Boy

Really Ed, you are far removed from cycling. Just because you are racing (are you really still racing, you look kind of fat on your web site) does not mean that you are involved. And you still miss answering the question, what gives you the right to work at dismissing all the CCA sponsors? You seemed to have assumed some responsibility that was not asked of you.

Fausto Coppied

Not racing at all.


You don't need to race to know what's going on, Prairie Child, in fact it probably helps if you don't.
I have a very good idea what is going on in most places in Canada. I have my sources, don't fool yourself. There are a great many people discontent with what they see. Why do you think Bill Kinash was tossed out on his ass after one term? That's never happenned before in the history of the CCA!

Prairie Boy

That Prairie Child is hilarious! Gets me at the core.
Are you avoiding the question?
Still waiting for an answer.

Fausto Coppied

I'm not sure what the question is?

Do you mean this, "what gives you the right to work at dismissing all the CCA sponsors? You seemed to have assumed some responsibility that was not asked of you."

I have all the rights I need to voice my opinion and contact people about it.

As for assuming responsibilities not asked, that's called taking initiative. Try it sometime.

Uboat

I think Uboat is so smart and funny Prairieboy! He is what's needed on this forum. But no one is answering the questions, no one!

Prairie Boy

So, instead of helping the CCA to secure new sponsorship by letting potential sponsors know what a great sport we have, you let our current sponsors think that they are making a poor decision investing in cycling. Does that not seem counterproductive? Shouldn't you be trying to build on what we have?

What is your goal? It seems that your only aim is the destruction of cycling in our country. Is that what the membership of the CCA wants?
And what are you assuming responsibility for? Is the cycling community a better place with you?

Fausto Coppied

Yes.