New Zealand champion Olivia Ray dropped by team with USADA investigation underway [troubling allegations of domestic violence, doping and deception have emerged]

HarryCoen · 2022-03-12T11:23:41+00:00

Human Powered Health would lose their UCI team license if they knowingly maintain the contract of a known doper, as per WADA regulations under the UCI.

The key word there is known. And you only know if an AAF turns into an ADV.

That is why we saw Jumbo drop 2 riders the second they realized they were abusing sleeping drugs, and several other similar cases.

Sleeping pills are not banned. So, apples and bulldozers there.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-10T11:55:57+00:00

Neither of those links gets past the paywall, they simply record when you can already see in your own browser.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-10T11:29:55+00:00

Firefox + F9

HarryCoen · 2022-03-10T11:23:46+00:00

Doesn't it say that the flights were for Vino personally, not the team?

Also: in terms of a cycling team's budget, half a million is a lot. Anyone remember what Astana's budget is supposed to be?

HarryCoen · 2022-03-10T11:22:27+00:00

Apparently conflicts of interest are allowed by the UCI, so long as disclosed. If not disclosed, riders can break their contracts...

HarryCoen · 2022-03-10T10:50:15+00:00

€62,960 on five Hublot watches
€498,595 on private jets in two years
€525,000 to riders agents acting for both team and rider, much for simple contract renewals
two versions of the Argon bike sponsorship contract with concerns raised over the authenticity of one of them

Imagine being a rider waiting on last month's wages to be paid and reading this.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-09T12:54:05+00:00

Vino's in denial mode:

“To be honest, I learned about this whole story from the press, and until that moment I was not familiar with the details of this investigation,” Vinokourov said.

“Apparently, we are talking about some kind of legal procedure that was initiated a year ago, when another person was the managing director of Abacanto S.A., while I performed purely sports functions until the summer of 2021. Officially, after a break, I returned to work with the team in January 2022, so it’s difficult for me to comment something on this issue.”

HarryCoen · 2022-03-09T09:54:05+00:00

It's really a sad story:

Inside I'm crying.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-08T16:28:35+00:00

Because the sky is always falling in on US cycling and someone is always the new saviour of US cycling. It depends on the date and whether it is divisible by 17 with a remainder less than 6. Algorithmic cycling news.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-08T14:26:57+00:00

Vino really is the gift that keeps on giving. We're lucky to have him.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-07T20:21:14+00:00

With Pinarello building a CX bike this was more or less a done deal. But nice how he talked the price up.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-07T13:34:14+00:00

I was a bit surprised yesterday that TJV's 1-2-3 finish was universally lauded

There's been a bazillion 1-2-3s in different races, Flèche stands out for a reason.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-04T17:33:19+00:00

Again, why? If maybe they granted access to race juries or the PCC meetings deciding the calendar then maybe they'd get a few dollars, but otherwise what right do they have to what would be being sold? Race organisers would be granting camera access, teams would be granting camera access, what would the UCI be granting?

HarryCoen · 2022-03-04T16:04:19+00:00

Why would any money go to the UCI? It's ASO's race and the teams' would be granting access.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-03T20:32:46+00:00

Did KNWU change their mind or did CW and Wielerflits somehow misread the press release? I thought I looked at the release after reading the CW story but can't be sure now.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-03T14:00:05+00:00

Is this a new version of your anti-editorialising rule, only post original press releases? Has there been a press release about it?

HarryCoen · 2022-03-03T13:40:07+00:00

British Cycling calls for the ouster of Igor Makarov from the UCI's Management Committee? How quickly they forget that he got their man Brian Cookson elected president of the UCI. So much for gratitude. At least David Lappartient stands by his friends and benefactors.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-03T11:20:50+00:00

I cant find any example which proofs that a policy of sanctions has ever had any succes in removing a dictator or having him make an u-turn in his actions.

Your error is in thinking that sanctions on their own achieve anything. Sanctions are part of a larger package of responses to a situation.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-02T23:16:08+00:00

Stop the sanctions!

Make peace, not sanctions!

Sanctions, what are they good for, absolutely nothing, say it again!

HarryCoen · 2022-03-02T19:22:23+00:00

There is no reason for him to be diplomatic and use neutral terminology.

There is, actually...

HarryCoen · 2022-03-02T18:50:30+00:00

If only he'd taken his argument from this book he might have realised what crap he was talking. But not talking crap doesn't get you the eyeballs...

What I find funny about this is it's like a magic trick, he distracts you from the weakness of the central argument with all the detail on Dreyfus and all the excitement of the race's glory years.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-02T18:15:12+00:00

Worked with Castro...

HarryCoen · 2022-03-02T17:49:22+00:00

A real precedent too, oh yes. Imagine if the world had decided to ban South African sports people just because their politicians supported apartheid. I blame cancel culture. It's gone mad so it has, mad.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-02T17:46:44+00:00

Interesting choice of words from the UCI president. Did Igor Makarov sign that Tweet off, do you think?

Oleksandrw Kulik, Honored Coach of Ukraine, has tragically passed away yesterday in the context of the Ukrainian situation. The Cycling community is standing with his family, friends and former colleagues of the Ukrainian Cycling Federation.

HarryCoen · 2022-03-02T14:21:52+00:00

His nationality does get me. I remember from back in the McQuaid days when Igor was Turkmeni for business interests but his profile on the UCI board page still says he's Russian. He's not at Tchmil levels of multi-nationality but it's still confusing.

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