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To: Vision
Well, I wouldn't rush to judgement on the UCI either. They absolutely have to clean up the sport, and they've been tossing out riders from every country on the globe, not just americans remember. The concern is that if they are too reckless, too cavalier about how they do it, then the anti-doping effort itself gets discredited, and cycling truly does become the joke sport all my unenlightened friends think it is.
20 posted on 07/28/2006 7:08:14 AM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani
I wouldn't rush to judgement on the UCI either.

Oh, I would. This is the organization that smeared Lance repeatedly over the years, even after he retired by releasing confidential info. By releasing any information that might make him look bad while not mentioning the much more voluminous info that cleared him. This is the group that made sure a large group of innocent guys couldn't race the TdF this year, including Vino. This is the group that continues to use a discredited testosterone test even after hundreds of cyclists have failed it and then been cleared by a much more reliable one. And it's been going on for years. The UCI is the organization that nullified Graeme Obree's World Hour Record by stating that his novel bike violated their rules even though they changed the rules after the record was set. This is the group that sent an official out onto the track and interfered with Obree because he was about to win the World Pursuit Track Championship. His bike had been declared legal before the start of the race. The UCI continued to say the bike was legal, they just didn't like the way he was sitting on it. There were no UCI regulations pertaining to how one must sit on a bike. The UCI had it in for Lance - they make that look like a minor nothing the way they had it in for Obree.

The UCI is a joke - it needs to be replaced by a credible oversight organization.

27 posted on 07/28/2006 7:48:58 AM PDT by green iguana (Way to go Floyd!)
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