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Pat McQuaid Not Worried By French Anti-Doping Snub
PARIS, March 6, 2010 (AFP) – Cycling boss Pat McQuaid said Saturday he was not surprised by the French anti-doping agency’s (AFLD) announcement they would not be cooperating with the International Cycling Union (UCI) at next week’s Paris-Nice race.
“For the UCI it’s an accepted fact that the AFLD will [...]
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- Armstrong-Contador Row “Good For Sport” Says UCI Chief
January 23rd, 2010ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 23, 2010 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong’s simmering row with Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is “healthy” for cycling and better than the usual doping controversies, the sport’s chief said on Saturday.
Pat McQuaid, president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) said the verbal hostilities since last [...] - UCI Ponders Football Style Transfers
January 23rd, 2010ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 23, 2010 (AFP) – Cycling is set to clamp down on transfers of riders between teams after high-profile swoops by Britain’s rich new Sky outfit, the sport’s chief said on Saturday,
UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) president Pat McQuaid said criticism of Team Sky’s tactics had prompted a [...] - UCI Powerless To Stop Valverde From Racing At Worlds
September 26th, 2009by Justin Davis
MENDRISIO, Switzerland, Sept 26, 2009 (AFP) – World cycling chief Pat McQuaid said the International Cycling Union (UCI) could do nothing to stop Alejandro Valverde from racing the world championships road race on Sunday.
Valverde is currently serving a two-year ban in Italy handed down [...] - UCI Reports That Astana License Hangs In The Balance
September 26th, 2009The cycling future of the Astana team, whose star rider is Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, could be in doubt, UCI chief Pat McQuaid said Saturday.
Astana are currently hoping to impress the UCI Pro Tour license commission sufficiently to gain a new four-year license and thus be able to continue racing [...] - Olympic Track Cycling Set For Overhaul
September 26th, 2009by Justin Davis
MENDRISIO, Switzerland, Sept 26, 2009 (AFP) – Female track cyclists could be among the biggest winners at the London Olympics after it emerged Saturday that world cycling chiefs want “gender parity” at the 2012 Games.
Currently, there are 10 track cycling finals at the Olympics.
[...] - Pat McQuaid Is Re-Elected At UCI
September 25th, 2009International Cycling Union (UCI) chief Pat McQuaid was re-elected for another four-year mandate Friday following a UCI congress on the fringes of the world road race championships.
The 60-year-old Irishman was the only candidate for the post, which he took over from Dutchman Hein Verbruggen in 2005.
A former professional racer [...] - French Minister Says UCI Must Not Waver
July 16th, 2009VITTEL, France, July 16, 2009 (AFP) – French Minister for Sport Roselyne Bachelot hit out Thursday at cycling’s world ruling body, calling for a more stringent approach to carrying out the doping controls on the race.
An incident involving the Astana team of race favourites Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong [...] - Decision On Tour Race Radios On Thursday – UCI
July 15th, 2009Cycling’s world governing body, the UCI, appears set to make a u-turn on the controversial banning of race radios for stage 13 of the Tour de France on Friday.
However, UCI chief Pat McQuaid said no decision will be made by the UCI’s management committee until Thursday.
“The Tour organizers [...] - Scandal-Free Tour Is Possible, Says Pat McQuaid
June 13th, 2009by Justin Davis
PARIS, June 11, 2009 (AFP) – Hopes of a scandal-free Tour de France in 2009 may be pie in the sky to some, but cycling’s most obstinate cheats have been warned they face a rocky road towards glory on the world’s biggest bike race.
On [...] - Cycling Chiefs To Name Latest Cheats, Threaten Sanctions
June 10th, 2009by Justin Davis
PARIS, June 10, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) said several riders currently under suspicion of doping will be named publicly next week, and will subsequently face sanctions.
UCI chief Pat McQuaid, here Wednesday to announce plans for the fight against doping at [...] - Tour de France 2009 Peloton To Face An Anti-Doping Army
June 10th, 2009by Justin Davis
PARIS, June 10, 2009 (AFP) – Potential drugs cheats at the 2009 Tour de France will face the biggest anti-doping army ever seen at a major sports event next month, UCI chief Pat McQuaid has warned.
McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), [...] - Tom Boonen To Be Given A Chance To Race At Tour de France
June 10th, 2009PARIS, June 10, 2009 (AFP) – Belgian star Tom Boonen has been given a chance to compete in next month’s Tour de France despite a recent, second positive test for cocaine.
Quick Step star Boonen, the winner of major one-day classics and Tour de France stages, sparked controversy last month [...] - Boonen Could Still Make Tour de France, Says UCI’s Pat McQuaid
May 27th, 2009BRUSSELS, May 27, 2009 (AFP) – Belgian rider Tom Boonen could still take part in the Tour de France despite his recent positive test for cocaine, according to Pat McQuaid, president of the International Cycling Union (UCI).
“There is no reason to ban Tom Boonen from the Tour. From the [...] - Open Letter To Mr. Pat Mc Quaid, President of the UCI.
April 18th, 2009Written by: Myles McCorry of BikePure.org
Firstly, may I congratulate the UCI on the evolving efforts to rid our wonderful sport of the cheats and their suppliers who continue to bring cycling into disrepute.
With major scientific advances in drug-testing procedures, coupled with the mainstream global desire for a new start, we can visualize an era of [...] - Pat McQuaid Defends Armstrong Over ‘Showergate’
April 11th, 2009France’s anti-doping authority (AFLD) was criticized Friday by cycling chief Pat McQuaid over its handling of the Lance Armstrong ’shower’ case.
On Thursday the AFLD announced it was pursuing the seven-time Tour de France champion for unprofessional behavior, claiming the Texan had violated strict dope-testing rules.
Their beef [...] - UCI Chief Heralds The Impact Of Anti-Doping Passport Program
February 19th, 2009Pat McQuaid, president of world cycling’s governing body UCI, says the biological passport programme
introduced in January last year will help bring an end to doping problems in the sport.
Years of high-profile drug scandals moved UCI to introduce the passports, which contain a personal record of each cyclist’s drug-testing history, to 850 [...] - Pat McQuaid Welcomed Decision To Reopen Operation Puerto Inquiry
January 21st, 2009PARIS, Jan 21, 2009 (AFP) – Cycling chief Pat McQuaid on Wednesday welcomed a Spanish judge’s decision to reopen the Operation Puerto inquiry into blood doping.
Operation Puerto, Spain’s most far-reaching doping investigation, was put on ice last September but a Madrid court ordered it to be restarted this month.
[...] - UCI Chief Pat McQuaid Announces End To Chaotic Cycling Feud
August 17th, 2008BEIJING, Aug 18, 2008 (AFP) – World cycling chief Pat McQuaid said Monday a long-running feud that has “split the cycling family” is nearing its end, as he announced the creation of a new world cycling calendar.
International Cycling Union (UCI) president McQuaid has been fighting resistance from major race [...] - IOC Anti-Doping Chief Arne Ljungqvist Backs Up Cycling At Olympic Games
August 15th, 2008BEIJING, Aug 15, 2008 (AFP) – Professor Arne Ljungqvist, head of the
International Olympic Committee’s medical commission, has brushed off a
suggestion that the troubled sport of cycling should be barred from the Games.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief John Fahey said last week that sports
tarnished by doping, including cycling and weightlifting, risked being
expelled [...] - World Cycling Chief Pat McQuaid Wants Support, Not Criticism
August 11th, 2008World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called for more support from the World Anti Doping Agency following comments by WADA president John Fahey which placed doubt on cycling’s future at the Olympics.
WADA chief Fahey said Monday that cycling was among several sports, including weightlifting, that risked their Olympic [...] - UCI ‘Disgusted’ At Spanish Rider Moreno Positive Doping Test At Olympics
August 11th, 2008by Justin Davis
BEIJING, Aug 11, 2008 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) expressed disgust Monday after a Spanish rider became the first athlete to fail a drugs test at the Olympics, blasting the country’s “lax attitude” to doping.
Maria Isobel Moreno produced tested positive for blood-booster [...] - UCI Chief Pat McQuaid Calls For Spanish To Clean Up Cycling
July 16th, 2008by Justin Davis
FOIX, France, July 16, 2008 (AFP) – World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has called on the Spanish authorities to increase their efforts in the fight against doping after the latest doping affair at the Tour de France.
Moises Duenas of the Barloworld team became the [...] - Tour de France Is Wrong To Break Away From UCI, McQuaid Says
July 2nd, 2008by Jean Montois
PARIS, July 1, 2008 (AFP) – Top cycling official Pat McQuaid has expressed his wish for a trouble-free Tour de France but says that it was a mistake for the event to have broken away from the International Cycling Union (UCI).
The Irishman says he regrets that the [...] - Teams request changes to Paris-Nice contract
May 2nd, 2008PARIS, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) – Cyclists due to compete in the Paris-Nice stage race have asked organisers to make amendments to a proposed teams’ contract, which in midweek prompted anger from the sport’s world ruling body.
The first major European stage race of the season will be held under a cloud after organisers controversially [...] - UCI boss slams colluding ASO and French sports ministry
March 7th, 2008PARIS, March 7, 2008 (AFP) – World cycling chief Pat McQuaid on Friday
stoked the feud with race organisers Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO),
accusing them of colluding to form a private league with the backing of the
French sports ministry.
International Cycling Union (UCI) president McQuaid made his accusations in
a column in French daily Le Monde just two days [...] - Paris-Nice Row Deepens As UCI Warns Of ‘Consequences’
March 1st, 2008Paris-Nice row deepens as UCI warns of ‘consequences’
PARIS, March 1, 2008 (AFP) – Cyclists due to compete in the Paris-Nice event should ensure they respect the world governing body’s regulations before taking part in a race which may have “unfortunate consequences” for them, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said [...]
- Hamilton, Rock Racing Fighting Mad Over Rider Exclusions
February 19th, 2008Ahead of stage one of the Tour of California, the Rock Racing team was still up in arms about the exclusion of its three GC stars, Santiago Botero, Oscar Sevilla, and Tyler Hamilton. In particular, the American Hamilton had plenty to say about his exclusion from the eight day stage race. “AEG still owes me [...]
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