Shane Sutton

[HF2300]

Have to say I hope if there's one thing that comes out of all this it'll be not any one person's success or failure, but an improvement in sports administration generally.

Over the various doping and BC threads in here we've talked about difficulties, incompetence, blindness, naivety, cynicism or corruption in BC, UCI, UKAD, WADA, UK Sport, IAAF and many other national and international bodies.

Let's hope the long term outcome of all this is an end to self-electing, self-perpetuating closed shops answerable to no-one and the start of an era of sporting bodies that are genuinely answerable to and work on behalf of their members, competitors and the public that ultimately fund them.

 

[mjr]

Brutish Cycling leak a bit more on bullying in an attempt to distract from the jiffy bag? http://road.cc/content/news/218847-...rship-reportedly-condemned-independent-review

 

[HF2300]

Grauniad's take on it: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...-dave-brailsford-reputation-in-tatters-review

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Lead story on BBC Breakfast just now, interviews with Jess Varnish and Rochelle Gilmore.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Lead story on BBC Breakfast just now, interviews with Jess Varnish and Rochelle Gilmore.

Ta for the news. The cycling bit starts 1 hour into the programme, at 7:01am, continuing at 7:09.

There's a fuller Varnish interview here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39234548

 

[Crackle]

I don't have a lot of sympathy for UKSport, they should quit whinging after the event and examine their own role in funding a body with potentially lapse governance. They're pretty quick to ruin athletes lives by withdrawing funding and being pretty hard nosed about it and fund the those producing medals no matter what or how; pathetic hypocrites.

So now we find that UKsport and British Cycling were, as suspected, thick as thieves and lapse in their governance oversight in their relentless pursuit of medals.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/15/uk-sport-went-easy-british-cycling-medal-factory

“With cycling, the UK Sport governance team felt they couldn’t ever go firm on them on any issue because they would come under pressure from the performance guys if they started poking around too much. No one wanted to disrupt the medal factory. It had the status of a special sport.”

 

[Viking]

I saw a bit of this yesterday whilst having my breakfast in Sainsbury's cafe and rubbernecking behind some git who had grabbed the last free newspaper

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a...sists-british-cycling-is-not-sexist-9fkgtvvfq
which I think is behind a paywall

I found this after some searching which is hopefully the complete article

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a...q?shareToken=7bc7175b64e346da36e0664f6d1872a9