The Lappartient ledgers

[mjr]

Now correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly sure Prudhomme wanted radios banned in some stages of the Tour De France.

Party like it's 2011 http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/aso-enforces-race-radio-ban-in-qatar-54469

Does Lappartient want to be the new fat Pat?

 

[Crackle]

Lappartient speaks again. This time about former dopers in the sport

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lappartient-former-dopers-have-no-place-in-cycling/

And is roundly rebuffed by a former doper

Riis himself had no comment to make about Lappartient's views, but Michael Rasmussen, perhaps one of the most notable former dopers and a current pundit for Danish television, told Ekstra Bladet that the comments amounted to just "more hot air" from the UCI.

"If he really believes it seriously, he could have started cleaning up his own French ranks when he was president of the French cycling union," Rasmussen said. Lappartient led the FFC from 2009 until March this year. "He could have begun with [FDJ manager] Marc Madiot, who has acknowledged that he has used doping.

 

[psmiffy]

"You start to fear that Lappartient only supplies what Cookson delivered for four years, hot air."

Does the UCI have the power to supply anything?

 

[Crackle]

Does the UCI have the power to supply anything?

ASO's wishes.

 

[psmiffy]

ASO's wishes.

True

 

[mjr]

Could Lappartient have stopped Madiot while president of the French federation, or would it just have been a waste of money ending up losing at CAS or seeing Madiot simply getting a licence from another national federation?

 

[Crackle]

Has anyone read this?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/worldtour-week-lappartient-and-the-counter-reformation/

Long one, so no quotes, you need to read it.

He's an idiot.

 

[rich p]

Has anyone read this?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/worldtour-week-lappartient-and-the-counter-reformation/

Long one, so no quotes, you need to read it.

He's an idiot.

Long on waffle.

 

[Crackle]

Long on waffle.

Yep. But if you cut through the waffle, he's basically arguing for a reduction in team power and promoting ASO events over all other events. He's quite possibly the worst President so far in UCI history and given what's gone before, that's something.

 

[Adam4868]

He could possibly redeem himself by designing a Tour that Bardet can win ?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

He's quite possibly the worst President so far in UCI history and given what's gone before, that's something.

Steady on!!

He is waffling a right load of bollocks, but you must have forgotten just how bad former Presidents have been

 

[Crackle]

Steady on!!

He is waffling a right load of bollocks, but you must have forgotten just how bad former Presidents have been

True: It's the sycophantic thinly disguised arse lickery that grates.

 

[mjr]

He is waffling a right load of bollocks, but you must have forgotten just how bad former Presidents have been

Hein "$3m Olympic Keirin?" Verbrugghen and Lance's friend Pat have a lot written about them online, but how bad were the ones before? The first President for life, Emile De Beukelaer (crowned 1900, died 1922), started UCI as a split from the International Cyclist Association (some say over GB trying to enter as its constituent nations, some say over the definition of amateurism) but that and the bizarre early UCI voting system (each country had one vote per track - GB 8 votes, France 18, for example) seem to be the main criticisms of his reign.

 

[Doseone]

That was a hard read, but there's nothing in there that dissuades me from the view that he's an ASO stooge.

 

[sleaver]

That was a hard read, but there's nothing in there that dissuades me from the view that he's an ASO stooge.

I'm sure there is a drinking game in there with the amount of times "Tour of France" and "ASO" were mentioned.