Wot, no more Victoria Pendleton?!? (8+0

Mark

She's retired regardless
You should've watched the dancing on tv!

Shh, a guy can dream.And watch as she rubs up against some random guy? No thanks. (8+p

Mark

get dancing then!

My thought was that the government through its sports bodies will need to find other sports to support.

No. Just, no.

Mark

VP is lovely, but anyone who saw that docu she did before the olympics knows that she's also.. well, she'd be hard work, let's put it that way.

I can't see how they'd justify booting cycling based on anything Armstrong said. I mean, it's not as if Athletics has anything like a spotless record in that regard is it? Half of the eastern european countries had institutionalised drug programs for the best part of 20 years before the wall came down. They've pretty much admitted it. Several gold medalists have been stripped of their honours for failing drug tests before now. If they boot cycling, they've also got to boot track & field, gymnastics and swimming for that matter.

If you boot all of those, what's actually left in the olympics? Hockey?

Beach volley ball.

I see where you're coming from but the suggested reason for removing cycling would be because the international governing body (The UCI) was corrupt, and not because of widespread cheating by competitors/national teams.

Oh well, it'll have to do


So they're saying the former matters, whereas the latter doesn't? The latter often wasn't just the odd athlete doing it, the national governing body in question was coordinating and controlling it.

Jon

Yes, because the former are the ones who set and enforce the rules for international competition, and provide officials for the Olympics. The latter provide and manage the teams that will compete in the events, and whilst they can modify the rules (in some sports in some instances) for national competition, these modifications do not apply at international level for obvious reasons.

The interview of Armstrong by Oprah starting airing last night. She was very straightforward with the answers and he seemed more lost than anything.
I remember one qutoe so far " I doped, but not a lot"

The only reason Cycling started to clean up its image was because the sponsers were saying do it or we walk. The salient point about Armstrong and his tour wins is that they are being vacated. Why, because all the other riders that could be bumped up to winners were also doping. The issue was totally endemic, if you wanted to win you had to dope. The ruling body knew this and resisted any change to stop this until there hand was forced.

As for the IOC suggesting that it should be dropped. the kettle black calling the pot rearrange

The IOC so corrupt they make FIFA look like a bastion of proprietary.

Who Sepp "brown envelope" Blatter?