McQuaid on Menchov

topcat77

I really hope we heard the last of him :-(

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mcquaid-says-he-started-menchov-doping-proceedings

gordongekko

Sure maybe he's right?

12 sprocket

The silence about how Brian Cookson is operating is deafening!!

Eamonnator

12 sprocket wrote: »

The silence about how Brian Cookson is operating is deafening!!

quite often, I find, that when things are going well, this is the case.

gordongekko

Eamonnator wrote: »

quite often, I find, that when things are going well, this is the case.

Things were great so during mcdaids period in charge

Lumen

12 sprocket wrote: »

The silence about how Brian Cookson is operating is deafening!!

Where, here? Or generally in the world?

There's nothing stopping you from voicing an opinion.

pelevin

"He [Armstrong] is a victim. Travis Tygart set out on a witch hunt with Dick Pound behind him. He's a victim of a USADA witch hunt."

After a pretty reasonable interview up till then, with those words a reminder of why McQuaid going is something that absolutely had to happen. Repeating Armstrong & his legal team of liars' mantra about a witchhunt - it takes a very thick & shameless skin to come back with that line. Rather than a witchhunt ending the myth of Armstrong & the tenure of McQuaid, it was a case of whichcunt could be brought down, and thankfully both of them.

gordongekko

pelevin wrote: »

"He [Armstrong] is a victim. Travis Tygart set out on a witch hunt with Dick Pound behind him. He's a victim of a USADA witch hunt."

After a pretty reasonable interview up till then, with those words a reminder of why McQuaid going is something that absolutely had to happen. Repeating Armstrong & his legal team of liars' mantra about a witchhunt - it takes a very thick & shameless skin to come back with that line. Rather than a witchhunt ending the myth of Armstrong & the tenure of McQuaid, it was a case of whichcunt could be brought down, and thankfully both of them.

Maybe it was a witch hunt. I don't see anyone going after menchov with the same effort.

pelevin

gordongekko wrote: »

Maybe it was a witch hunt. I don't see anyone going after menchov with the same effort.

The whole inference of Armstrong's coterie in using the mantra ad nauseum "witchhunt" was that this was a totally unfair attempt to bring an innocent man down. The inference in no way was meant to suggest Armstrong may be guilty but that even still in a morally relativistic sense the USADA process was unfair.

In a UCI chief repeating that very description the Armstrong faction tried to deflect the process towards I'd say is deeply off-putting, as well as describing Armstrong as a victim. "Victim" again, just as with "witchhunt" has the intrinsic implication of innocence, and shameless is I think a perfectly fair description of McQuaid's portraying here of the USADA process as a withhunt of a victim - perfectly in line with McQuaid & the UCI's fervent efforts to discredit USADA at the time.

gordongekko

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/former-tour-de-france-winners-say-give-armstrong-his-victories

retalivity

someone commentating underneath put it better than I could

"Former Tour de France winners say riders should keep their wins even its later found out they doped.

No conflict of interest there then..."

gordongekko

Kimmage going a bit mad on twitter over the article

Hermy

I suppose some people are just never going to accept that Armstrong never won the Tour de France.