doctorSpoc said:
riders need to be scared shitless into not doping or they just WILL NOT STOP... one of the biggest deterrents at the UCI's disposal is that your blood and urine can be tested at a future time when new tests are available.. this will actually give riders pause... but if they know that the UCI is not going to pull the trigger on this.. they are not going to be scared at all of this.
Pat McQuaid is a fool! this actually makes me think that Tyler Hamilton is right... the sport of cycling has a mafia (guess who's the godfather)... if you don't pay the protection money, you go down... i have a feeling that the positives from the tour were just a ploy to appease the masses... give them a little taste of some red meat and they will go away satisfied that something is being done... i have this feeling that they stopped testing or reporting positive when they had enough positives to appease the masses or when all the riders that were not on the payroll had been outed, then they stopped.
if Pat McQuaid continues in this way and the sport continues to go down, he can count himself as being personally responsible for it's demise... even if this was his thinking he shouldn't go on record and publicly state it the way he did... in the fight against dope they need to have riders know that they will use whatever means necessary in whatever circumstance to out doped rider... but from McQuaids statements... outing doped riders is not his goal... his goal is to fool the public, sponsors and the media into thinking he's serious about ending doping in cycling when clearly he is not.. IDIOT!!
Good post.
When our national federation had an AGM to nominate McQuaid to go for the UCI job, some of us members opposed his candidacy.
Got to put my cards on the table here - Pat coached me and the rest of myteam for 6 years, during the mid-1980's.
I know Pat well and I've always got on well with him both in cycling and socially.
He's a very good coach.
But he's also a politician and he always put the "best front" on issues.
Even when the issue was clearcut, Pat always tended to prevaricate.
Many federation members here, while wanting to have a UCI President from this country, were not willing to back McQuaid as a candidate for the job because we knew that Pat always prevaricates.
He will wait to see what way the wind blows before giving an opinion.
His view is "the end justifies the means".
That sort of personality is totally inappropriate to handle the crisis that is hitting this sport.
The sport needs a UCI President who is willing to take a tough stand.
McQuaid?
Pat is more interested in maintaining his profile and his house in Switzerland (as UCI head).