Another one bites the dust, much to my satisfaction

Eddie Arzouian

You gotta love it!!!!!!

The Bill Kinash Legacy: fuckin' disaster.









August 15, 2006 (Ottawa ON) – The Canadian Cycling Association (CCA), the national governing body for cycling in Canada, announced today that Steve Lacelle, its Chief Operating Officer, will take up new challenges at the end of the month to pursue a career in banking operations.


“Steve has made significant contributions to restructuring the associationand to building strong relationships with his team, collaborators and our partners,“said Dr. Pierre Blanchard, CCA President. “I sincerely wish him the best of luck in his new endeavour, and I am confident that he will be able to bring as much to his new organization as he did for the CCA.“

Under Lacelle’s stewardship, the association increased revenues significantly, signed several new corporate partnerships and refocused its commitment to improving support to its athletes and coaches. And with several new projects in the pipeline for 2007, Lacelle commented, “We have achieved much of what we planned for the organization and I wish all athletes, coaches and organizers, my colleagues at the provincial level, and indeed all staff, the very best for the future."

About CCA

The CCA is the national governing body for Canadian cycling. Representing its members (individuals, clubs and trade teams) through provincial and territorial cycling associations, its mission is to lead and support the development and growth of cycling in Canada, through high performance programs, cycling development centres, national and international events, and the national introduction to cycling program for youth, known as Sprockids. Founded in 1882, it is Canada's oldest sport governing body. For more information, please visit www.canadian-cycling.com, or contact us at 613-248-1353.


For further information, contact:


Florence Bourg
Communications Manager
Canadian Cycling Association
2197 Riverside Drive, suite 203
Ottawa, ON, K1H 7X3
T 418-824-9207
C 418-558-4559

florence.bourg@canadian-cycling.com

From: Ed Arzouian [mailto:earzouian@hotmail.com]
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Subject: Another one bites the dust, much to my satisfaction

Ha, ha, ha….!!!

Friggin’ beautiful.

I told you so is too easy.

Here we go again. Let’s see what limp dick they hire now…..

From: Ed Arzouian [mailto:earzouian@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:44 AM
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Subject: Where is Q4?

Where is Q4


Looks like Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) Executive Director Steve Lacelle has given up his quarterly report cards.

Who can blame him!

The CCA has failed to meet almost every objective it set for itself since May 2005. Before that it never set objectives so it is more difficult to monitor the failure but not to perceive it.

Still, Mr. Lacelle, who had absolutely no cycling experience whatsoever when he was hired to run the sport for the country, is an M. B. A*. Since Lacelle has done nothing for the sport you’d expect an MBA to at least write you a decent report with pretty graphs and pie charts but Lacelle is not even doing that anymore.

Steve must be too busy making excuses for Kim Sebrango his Marketing Director who has not signed one meaningful new sponsorship in more than a year and who cannot seem to even get the logos on the web site of the ridiculous sponsorships she did sign (Delta Hotels for discounts on rooms rider will never use and HR Block to do CCA member taxes returns at a discount!!!!

So the embarrassment in Ottawa continues while the sport continues to swirl around the toilet bowl before fully disappearing down the shitter.

Give us a quarterly report, Steve, your last one was January 31 2006: (http://www.canadian-cycling.com/English/information/documents/CCA-COO_Report-Q3_2005.pdf)

What are you waiting for? It is the second half of August. Did you think we would forget?

Where is Q4? Where are Q1 2006 and Q2????


Document your pathetic performance, Steve. We’re waiting…….


*Some people might ask, “How can somebody with ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE IN A GIVEN SPORT become the Executive Director of that sport’s national governing body? How can that make sense?”

Certainly that is a legitimate question.

Here’s how it came about. Lacelle and Sebrango were hired by former CCA President Bill Kinash, the only one-term President in CCA history. Kinash knew next-to-nothing about the sport so he hired somebody with even less knowledge about it than himself. Lacelle knew NOTHING about the sport AT ALL so he hired Sebrango who seems to know next-to-nothing about anything, since she did poor work at Soccer Canada and Skate Canada prior to doing next-to-nothing at the CCA.

Hard to believe that’s how your tax dollars and membership fees are being spent, but there you have it.

Eddie Arzouian

Gee, I hope it WAS something I said.


Good riddance.

Take Kim Sebrango with you.

Eddie Arzouian

"Steve Lacelle, its Chief Operating Officer, will take up new challenges at the end of the month to pursue a career in banking operations."

What bank would that be? I'll make sure to pull any funds out that I might have there!

Uboat

(Oh that is just too easy. I will let someone else jump on in for this one.)

Good day sirs

Eddie Arzouian

Uboat, you have nothing to offer. You seem to know nothing about the sport. You have no insight. Go ahead and try to defend the hiring of a guy with ABSOLUTELY NO CYCLING EXPERIENCE to run sport's national governing body, a guy who spends 18 months on the job and quits or is forced to resign.



It was another complete waste.



More of the same from Bill Kinash. Even nine months after he is no longer CCA President his decisions still haunt us and set back the sport.



Kim Sebrango will leave shortly as well, as is even more of failure than Lacelle was.



Time and time again I have been proven right.



Make all the silly comments you want, it doesn't change this sport is going down the shitter BIG TIME.



Only radical change will turns things around. There is nobody radical enough in the sport right in Canada to make a difference. We are surrounded with mediocrity at best, total incompetence at worse.

Eddie Arzouian

Anybody that thinks Lacelle (see his interview elsewhere) left the CCA in better financial shape is fooling themsleves.


He benefitted for a windfall, one-time, profit that will never repeat itself and that the CCA failed to capitalize on.

In no time at all the CCA will once again be a finanicial basket case.

There is not anybody currently involved in the sport in Canada that would want the position that could improve things.

The only idea he came up with to increase revenue was one I had been promoting for five years: selling national team jerseys and promotional material. Hardly ground-breaking stuff.

Uboat

[QUOTE=Eddie Arzouian]Uboat, you have nothing to offer. You seem to know nothing about the sport. You have no insight. Go ahead and try to defend the hiring of a guy with ABSOLUTELY NO CYCLING EXPERIENCE to run sport's national governing body, a guy who spends 18 months on the job and quits or is forced to resign.


I was neither defending him or criticizing him, i was making fun of your wild claims to boycott whatever bank he will work for. Sorry if that was too subtle for you.

Good day sirs

Shane Lavell

You have to get someone in there that has a CYCLING minded train of thought. Lacelle suggested Ken Read?. Well that would be terrific but where cycists not skiers. You don't go to a masonry to get your diamond ring assessed. You have to get someone in there that is going to be committed long term to develope and maintain the proper direction that this Sport in Canada has to go in.

The CCA states there secure as a business to go in this direction according to Lacelle's comments I guess will have to wait and see yet again.

Fausto Coppied

Yes, Shane, you're right once again we have to wait. Another year will be lost. that's about 6 or 7 now of waste.

Fausto Coppied

Shane, if you are looking for Ed, he had been banned here. I'm betting he will be back though:





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Subject: Banned again....



Well, it looks like I have been banned again from a cycling web forum, this time for asking a simple question.



I was wondering if Rob Jones' wife, Editoress of Canadian Cyclist as she calls herself, was a transsexual.



It is an innocent enough question, after all she is bigger and stronger than Rob. Furthermore, Rob is a big supporter of transsexuals representing women, Canada and the sport of cycling in international competition, he said so in an editorial, so he seems to have some affinity for transsexuals.





It makes you think.



So a guy asks a simple question and gets banned.



What is the world coming too?



Well, at least it was good to know Rob Jones was reading all my writings on www.cyclingforums.com.



His publication is part of what ails the sport. Rather than report the truth he sugar-coats everything, pandering to the CCA (a big contributor) and his sponsors. He should call himself a

cheerleader rather than a journalist.

Fausto Coppied

January 26, 2005 (Ottawa, Ontario) -- On accepting the position as COO Mr. Lacelle commented "I am looking forward to the challenge of restoring this organization to full capacity and to promoting the sport's development across Canada. We have a challenge ahead, but there are exceptional resources in athletes, staff and coaches to lead the way. It will be my goal to create more opportunities for all Canadians to enjoy the benefits of cycling while attracting more resources to the sport to ensure high performance success is sustained on the world scene for years to come."

18 months later he quits.......

No opportunities were created nor acted upon.
Zero new resources were attracted to high performance.
Fewer events were held.
Fewer teams exist now than they did 18 months ago.
Media attention has dwindled.
Canada Cups have dwindled.

About the only changes have been procedural, on paper, just about what you would expect from somebody who knew nothing of the sport but had an MBA!

Let's pray Sebrango quits next or is fired.

Uboat

My word. You get banned with one username here last year, so you make up a new one, get booted today, make another new one that pretends you are someone else and continue posting. How can you expect to be taken seriously when you don't respect people or their websites, after they politely tell you to get lost? (This after being banned by how many websites' forums? Not to mention the firings..who can forget those, but I digress! See the CC forums for more on people's opinions of you.)

Get your own site with your own forum Ed, Eddie, Fausto--whoever you are, you'll never get kicked off there!

Good day sirs, back to my real job again, I can't post here anymore it's just too funny to watch you talk to yourself.

p.s. how funny is it that he makes fun of CC and the editors there so much and how much he hates them and and their site and their forum and then goes and tries to post anyway under a different name today as if he is someone else! Twice!

Jon Jonson

uboat:

are you suggesting that everyone who posts on canadian cyclist loves rob jones?

that's quite the fan club.

Uboat

No, not at all. It's just funny that Ed would say CC is such a terrible site and that he hates their and pedal's forum and yet he still tries to post there continually after being banned over and over again!

Good day Sirs.