Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis are "scumbags" says UCI president

I don't have any sympathy for Landis, Hamilton or McQuaid.

However, as president of a major sport, McQuaid should 100% consistent about wanting the sport he governs to be clean. McQuaid does himself and UCI no favours by defaming Landis and Hamilton – it's unprofessional, bitter and harmful to his and the sport's reputation.

The Armstrong donations to UCI reflect badly and are indefensible. There's plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest that UCI has been happy to accommodate the dopers – this is a tipping point in the sport and all we are seeing is the vested interests rallying round to keep their snouts in the trough.

How is this plonker still in charge?

I have to say that whilst in general I'm no Pat fan, he is right on this occasion. Hamilton and Landis are scumbags.
Think it through, Hamilton didn't lose his wife and cash fighting the UCI trying to expose the drugs in the sport, he was trying to clear his name.
Once that failed him and Landis did the honourable thing of saying 'well, if I can't play anymore, no one else is going to play either, I'm taking you all with me'. It's the same as a jealous ex throwing acid in the face of his old lover to spoil it for everyone.
These pair were not victims of the doping culture, they were key players... Have no sympathy for them.

Now that said, Pandoras box has been opened, and the future could be brighter because of it... And that's is in part thanks to these spiteful mens attempts to destroy the sport.

Looks like Pat has finally found his balls. Someone must have told him where Lance left the jar with them in.

You know what they say, "The best form of defence is attack". McQuaid knows he's in for a kicking and he's trying to get his revenge in first.

Hopefully this will be the last hurrah for a man on his way out and who is despised even more than his predecessor because he knew what was going on and ignored the chance to put it right because it would have derailled his gravy train.

Why wasn't he pressed on the fact that he personally spoke to Lance outlining the action forthcoming on the Friday before the official UCI statement on the Monday. 'Sorry Lance but we'll try to mitigate by calling those who ratted Scum Bags'.

The biggest scumbags in all this are the UCI. Festina was an opportunity to clean up the sport, but they just chose to clean up their image. Lance Armstrong, as an English speaker returning from illness, was the ideal poster boy for this project. I agree with just about everything that Landis is not allowed to say and more besides!

Spoken like a vile and spiteful little cnut !

"He then spends the next few years trying to prove he was a twin before he was born or something like that and prove the scientific community wrong. He loses his marriage and his money."

This man get's pleasure from ruining one man, yet protects his biggest asset right to the last.

So who should we support McQuaid the scumbag who in 1976 defied an international ban on athletes competing in South Africa for the money. Or the athletes who have helped expose the hypocrisy of the UCI and the scumbag who runs it?

McQuaid's comments just go to show that the UCI is still poisoned by the drug legacy. If McQuaid was serious about doing the right thing a truth and conciliation session is the right way forward.

Publicly calling Landis and Hamilton scumbags seems like a foolish and petty thing to do, far from the sort of behaviour you'd expect from a worthy leadership to World cycling. It is for this very sort of thing that McQuaid should step down as it does not appear as if he wants to take cycling forward.

I can see that within professional cycling you might view Hamilton and Landis with little respect, but I actually think that there testimony, along with other riders can start to change things for cycling. If McQuaid botches this and fails to use the momentum then cycling will be mired.

USADA, by bringing Armstrong to book, have sent out a message to cheats that the will not prosper from their endeavours. If Armstrong was allowed to carry on with his charade then the message is that cheaters prosper. At least now riders who do cheat will need to do it on their own and the organisation back up under US Postal will be much harder.

I think he has a point. All dopers are scumbags. But then he should know.....

McQuaid's worse than a clown. He's got that fantastic combination of being both sly and a moron. Well, attempting to be sly anyway. I can't quite understand his actions - they follow no logic whatsoever and make him look wholly unsuitable to head any kind of organisation.

What a clown, let's hope there no investigative journo's out there going through his bins and rummaging up evidence of the man's corruption

"Another thing that annoys me is that Landis and Hamilton are being made out to be heroes. They are as far from heroes as night and day. They are not heroes. They are scumbags. All they have done is damage to the sport.”

I guess it would have all been much better, Mr McQuaid, if we just let it lie and let Armstrong continue his fraud (which looks like it might actually cost him some money now - hope he is bankrupt by the end of the year) ignoring the fact that the sport is dirty and will continue like that until you have someone in charge with some morals!

Hamilton and Landis might not be heroes but at least they had some dignity left to come clean. Armstrong has nothing and I feel embarrassed for all the fops turning up to listen to him. A deluded man with not a hint of a conscience.

Mr McQuaid, if you really love the sport then step down - go gracefully rather than having all the pro-riders calling for your head by the end of next season.

I guess we get ten more years for all this to play out... sighs... turns off internet...

# It's time to play the music

It's time to light the lights ... #

Pat McQuaid is a clown. A terrorist. Like Colonel Gaddafi.