it's building the right momentum now....
next week will be interesting indeed....
it's building the right momentum now....
But then aren't you just moving the corruption out of the governing body and into the corporate one? Corruption is Bernie's middle name!Flinty72 wrote:You know what this sport needs, a Bernie (yes as in Ecclestone).
Just someone who is a savy businessman / company head to take over the marketing & promotion of the sport, leaving the governing body to regulate just like the F1 model. Same goes all the way down the cycling system right to the club level imho.
Any sporting body that is goverened & promoted by 1 entity will always be open to corruption due to the conflict of interest... just like has been said with the OIC, FIFA etc.
Perhapsw00dsy wrote:Given his reluctance to admit any wrong doing and his pics on twitter and his comments about himself on strava, I'd really love to know what it was that made him suddenly admit to it.
Gizmo wrote:Well the interview didn't answer to many questions for me. The only emotion he showed was when talking about his children and Livestrong. Oprah didn't have the knowledge of the sport and she didn't push him hard enough. I hope that Phil Liggit gets a chance to do an interview, that one will answer alot more questions. It seems to me the only reason he is doing this is so he can compete again.
His argument seemed to be that everyone was doing it so it was back to being a level playing field. Very little remorse shown on his part. The worst bit though was to sit and testify that he was clean and to sue perfectly innocent people to 'prove' that even though he knew he was lying.Flinty72 wrote:Well in lamens terms EPO is said to provide about a 20% increase in performance so if taking that & translating it to time in a TDF then 20% equates to about 100th place overall or mid-pack fodder.
That is the thing that shits me most "they were all doing it!" Fucking bull shit! There may have only been a few NOT on the juice, but they are the real heros, not those cheating fucks that did use PEDs. Sadly, some of the cyclists I really like, and who are yet to come out and say they used, did, and that pisses me off even more.J.D. wrote:Seems to me like he justified it by saying to himself, "Well you're all doing it so if I go down I'm gunna take the rest of you fuckers with me".
That would also have been his protection.