Petition: For Pat McQuaid to resign & UCI Cleaned Up

Sylvanus although I support your view that McQuaid should go I think that a more practical way to get rid of him would be to support the Kimmage Defence Fund. If McQuaid and his co-conspiritor loose their case against Kimmage then the main stream press will pick up the cause and force the big teams to view McQuaid as a liability. This may then get them finally to force the UCI to get rid of McQuaid. As other writers have said the problem with the UCI is the same as with FIFA et al, normal fans have no power.

Hang on a minute, why am i the one who has to take the drugs

As people have already said, me included, the UCI is the same as Fifa, F1A etc etc. They stand and vote for each other and no outsider will stop that from happening.

They get to go to all the GT's and visit beautiful places all over the globe in 5* luxury so a few thousand names on a petition isn't going to make them become trapist monks and hand everything over.

The Kimmage case maybe the straw that breaks the camels back but until that happens or not i dont think we, as cycling fans, will have any influence over what they do.

dr, gkam etc - are you being wilfully ignorant about the UCI, Verbruggen and McQuaid, money paid to them etc or you really don't know much about it? McQuaid for one thing has been within the UCI cabal for way longer than he has been president. During both his and Verbruggen's reign the UCI has consistently suppressed voices raising valid concerns about its being complicit in allowing doping and covering up (Kimmage, Dick Pound and Michael Ashenden spring to mind). And no, of course you don't have any remit at all in terms of doping in cycling - you aren't responsible if Armstrong, Millar, Contador or your own dogs doped. But your complacency about the position of the UCI is where you're part of the problem. The UCI is critical in terms of doping because the UCI is the body that is supposed to regulate cycling and how it works, including the issue of performance-enhancing drugs, dope testing (when the UCI took over testing from the AFLD for the TdF in 2009, when Armstrong came back and miraculously finished on the podium, it resulted in not one positive test and was heralded as proof positive that the 'war on doping' was being won with the first race without a positive since 2005 - 2008 had seen several CERA positives) and issuing and coordinating bans. When the regulator of a sport turns a blind to eye to the taking of these drugs and, arguably, encourages it, the situation requires righting. Just turning a blind eye and saying that you think the UCI does a pretty good job is just poor.

Spot on dullard. One can only imagine what would have happened to the case against USPS if USADA had caved in to McQuaid's bullying and handed all the evidence to the UCI.

Dullard - we come on here for the craic and to have a laugh, sometimes even at each other and to play the fantasy game.

If a topic comes up we do or dont agree with we make our feelings known.

We dont always agree on everything but this topic seems to have united a few of us in our remarks. Now there is nothing wrong with a petition its just that a few of us dont agree thats the route to go down. It may seem to you that thats a good route then thats fine but please dont try and make us out as "part of the problem" just because we dont agree with yourself.

Apologies, stumps, didn't realise it was all just a bit of a giggle. Doping, ruining riders' careers, conspiracy, embezzlement, pah! What a larf!

Ha, laugh i nearly wet myself

According to the Oxford dictionary:

Definition of dullard

noun

a slow or stupid person: he was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard

I thought it was a sort of duck.

Mallard