So, right now Carbon Addiction is on the ground in Rome, Italy for an exclusive and entirely fictitious* interview with ex-UCI President Pat McQuaid at the start of the 2014 Giro d’Italia, aka the Grande Partenza. Only trouble, of course, is the race is actually starting in Belfast this year which apparently McQuaid didn’t realise. … More GIRO EXCLUSIVE: Pat McQuaid Interview*
Choo, choo, choo. The slow train wreck that is the UCI Presidential Election is about to pull into Florence station. What a fiasco. McQuaid’s shamelessly Machiavellian antics would be hilarious if they weren’t so damning and damaging for the already battered reputation of world cycling. Instead of celebrating the sport’s finest athletes, politics and controversy … More Two tribes: McQuaid vs Cookson
Pat McQuaid. You’re Irish FFS…not Suisse or Moroccan or Thai. Thai???? Please, just accept your time with your nose in the trough of world cycling is over and stop doing even more damage to the sport you’re supposed to be protecting. Your desperate and shamelessly self-serving behaviour over the last few months (years?) to gain … More Irish joke no longer funny
At least one and possibly two of these shamelessly expedient men will be elected/re-elected in September. National politics. Sporting politics. It’s enough to make you go for a long ride and never come back…
It isn’t FIFA. But lately the UCI has sure been acting like it. In recent times accusations of cover ups, nepotism, political expediency and general ineptitude have been flying around faster than Mark Cavendish’s chain ring. Which brings us to a bearded British chap called Brian Cookson who looks more than a bit like The … More Pete Townsend takes on Pat McQuaid
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