Poll: should Pat McQuaid resign?

ilm_zero7

In all this name calling between Hamilton, Millar and Pat McQuaid - is it now the UCI who are at fault, rather than individual riders?

Dancing Bear

interesting article here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mercier ... at-mcquaid
he is right in saying
"Just as in politics they say 'it's the cover-up not the crime'

jerry3571

I guess Pat has got the shredder and Tippex doing overtime and the mo.

Jerry

BelgianBeerGeek

For me, this has been one of the worst aspects of the whole sorry business. This sport can only sort itself out from the top down. It's not acceptable for the men at the top to just shake their heads, mutter a few platitudes and then carry on with the expense lunches etc as though nothing major happened.
Oh yeah, nearly forgot. He should go.

iainf72

Ok, he goes tomorrow. There's no credible plan in place, there is a power void and the most powerful will grab it.

Welcome UCI President Makarov.

Yes, there needs to be a shake up, but it needs to be planned properly and excuted well.

disgruntledgoat

I've just read his nonsense from yesterday... why are they so consistent in shooting themselves in the foot?

After the presser, I was tranquillo, he didn't go full masochism, but he was never going to. Now he seems to want to have his cake (credit for getting rid of Armstrong) and eat it (destroy USADA's credibility and implicate them in any appeal) reinforcing his position as king of cycling.

Mad Roadie

the sooner he goes the better - if only to get his whining excuses for a lack of action off the airwaves - it is so telling the UCI couldnt act until USADA did their stuff, yet they are meant to be the policing force of cycling, and someone else had to do their dirty work

Mikey23

Caught helplessly between criticism from WADA and USADA and his inability to face up to the issues, I cannot see any way that the man can move forward in any meaningful way...

Mikey23

Here's a thought though... Has he called anyone a pleb?

ilm_zero7

READ THIS
Open Letter to Pat McQuaid from Greg LeMond

http://www.steephill.tv/2012/usada-lanc ... etter.html

oh how true!

DeadCalm

iainf72 wrote:

Ok, he goes tomorrow. There's no credible plan in place, there is a power void and the most powerful will grab it.

Welcome UCI President Makarov.

Yes, there needs to be a shake up, but it needs to be planned properly and excuted well.

You keep throwing this out there as though this would be a catastrophe. Assuming he severed his ties with Katusha, how exactly would this be worse than what we currently have?

Richmond Racer

DeadCalm wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

Ok, he goes tomorrow. There's no credible plan in place, there is a power void and the most powerful will grab it.

Welcome UCI President Makarov.

Yes, there needs to be a shake up, but it needs to be planned properly and excuted well.

You keep throwing this out there as though this would be a catastrophe. Assuming he severed his ties with Katusha, how exactly would this be worse than what we currently have?

Well, I'd say that anyone who thinks that Katusha is a clean team is living in la-la land. Dont think that makes the owner a fit person to head up the UCI.

Sorry, correction, I should say a fit person to head up the UCI that we want in the best interests of cycling.

ilm_zero7

yes, but if you remove the leadership, wouldn't you end up with an impotent, unfocussed, and ineffective body in no control of the governance of the sport?.... oh hang on! isn't that what we have had for years now?

DeadCalm

Richmond Racer wrote:

Well, I'd say that anyone who thinks that Katusha is a clean team is living in la-la land. Dont think that makes the owner a fit person to head up the UCI.

He'd not be my first choice either although I doubt very much that he's directly involved in any doping at Katusha. It's just Iain has used his name on a couple of occasions to suggest that McQuaid should stay as he is the lesser of two evils. I don't see it. In view of Fat Pat's recent utterances I'm now inclined to believe that Makarov would actually be the lesser evil.

timoid.

iainf72 wrote:

Ok, he goes tomorrow. There's no credible plan in place, there is a power void and the most powerful will grab it.

Welcome UCI President Makarov.

Yes, there needs to be a shake up, but it needs to be planned properly and excuted well.

And you trust Pat to plan this? He will continue to do what he has always done, survive.

I think he probably needs to step down within a defined timeframe, say 6 months, to allow a successor to be identified and brought in. But it needs to a definite commitment to leaving.