[Dim]

UCI Footage of the election result, Cooksons speach etc.

[KeithJamesMc]

The interesting bit: that Cookson wants some new vice presidents as soon as possible...

The weird bit: why did they include that clip of Makarov speech in Russian? it was clearly out of sequence compared to the agenda

[Sundance Kid]

Meh, Cookson will have to convince me he's what cycling needs. Doubt he will though, cycling lost anyway with the whole flipping circus around it anyway.

Hi first post.  I cant see how you can say cycling lost. It certainly was a circus but that was created by a Pat desperately clinging on to what he had. It only emphasized how badly cycling needed rid of him. Cycling took a huge stride forward today IMO.The jury is still out on Cookson but his actions will quickly prove one way or another if he is the right man. I hope so.

[Zam]

Orla Chennaoui ‏@SkyOrla 11h
Reports that Greece was offered €25,000 to back Cookson in UCI presidential race. We've seen proof that it was indeed the case

[Sundance Kid]

Orla Chennaoui ‏@SkyOrla 11h
Reports that Greece was offered €25,000 to back Cookson in UCI presidential race. We've seen proof that it was indeed the case

Couch potato? Better get out on the bike tomo.

Anyway, would be interested to hear more about her evidence. I watched a report she gave on SKY sports news earlier when she was asked about Pats legacy and she tip toed around the question without giving an answer. So if she is stating that I would believe it to have substance, shes not in the game to stir up rumours.

[Zam]

Couch potato? Better get out on the bike tomo.

Anyway, would be interested to hear more about her evidence. I watched a report she gave on SKY sports news earlier when she was asked about Pats legacy and she tip toed around the question without giving an answer. So if she is stating that I would believe it to have substance, shes not in the game to stir up rumours.

What do you mean? i should ride my bike more because i posted a tweet by sky orla?

[KeithJamesMc]

I thought today was a great showcase for the need for change at the UCI.

And, the challenges that Cookson will face going forward.

It is not just the national federations, executive committee, but also the staff at the uci.

Big challenges - not just in policy, but also in organisation.

The thing I found intriguing was the difference between the two secret ballots.

1. Vote on changing rule - 21/21 - you'd have thought that this vote would have split along partisan lines.
2. Vote on President - 24/18 - 3 people seemingly changed their minds...

Why:
- the quality of the candidates speeches?
- the ineptness of the proceedings?
- the Cookson gesture "bugger it, lets just vote"?

[KeithJamesMc]

Orla Chennaoui ‏@SkyOrla 11h
Reports that Greece was offered €25,000 to back Cookson in UCI presidential race. We've seen proof that it was indeed the case

This is just nonsense as documented in the Ethics Commission notes:
- basically someone (unknown) asked the Greek guy (who didn't have a vote) to lobby for Cookson
- they said get in touch with makarov and he might sponsor the tour of hellas for €25k

No money changed hands, no committment made = no bribe...

[Sundance Kid]

What do you mean? i should ride my bike more because i posted a tweet by sky orla?

No mate lol. It was my first post and I saw i have a couch potato rating. Nothing to do with you

[Sundance Kid]

This is just nonsense as documented in the Ethics Commission notes:
- basically someone (unknown) asked the Greek guy (who didn't have a vote) to lobby for Cookson
- they said get in touch with makarov and he might sponsor the tour of hellas for €25k

No money changed hands, no committment made = no bribe...

Thanks for clearing that up. It did seem strange Cookson would engage in this so early given who he was running against

[Joachim]

Cookson strikes me as a cycling geek in a suit. Not one of your archetypal sports execs, avaricious, venal, and bloaty-faced from all the Michelin-starred dinners paid for by those for whom you'll do bidding, for a price.

Time will tell if he'll be as effective as he has been at BC, but a McQuaid clone he is not.

[August]

This is a good day.  I still have some reservations about Cookson and am not sure if he is the right guy to help fix cycling's problems, but I'm willing to give him a chance. Got to be better then McQuaid and at least we are done with him now. Now hopefully he does what he said he would do, leave cycling for good.

[just some guy]

UCI Congress: a rare look into cycling’s inner workings

[just some guy]

Cookson wins UCI presidency after Machiavellian drama

[Lantern Rouge]

I think we can all agree that re-electing Pat would have been bad. It remains to be seen if replacing him with Cookson will be good.

Fully agree. Nice words are nice - but the final decisions and actions are what really counts. The jury is out for the next four years, to judge if Cookson abide on his election promises. My genuine feeling is however, that he will indeed deliver as promised, and I strongly support his wind of change:

1) Truth and Reconcilliation Process
2) Reform of the UCI AntiDoping Agency into an Independent ADA
3) Implementation of new anticorrupt - more democratic and more business like - UCI governance structures

In his first interview after the election, Cookson already started to deliver on point 1, as per the quote below. 

Cyclingnews interview of Brian Cookson:
"We need to put a [Truth and Reconciliation process] structure in place as quickly as possible. Lance Armstrong will be one of the first people invited to contribute to the process once we've established it. And I'll be seeking to do that as quickly as possible."

[just some guy]

Fully agree. Nice words are nice - but the final decisions and actions are what really counts. The jury is out for the next four years, to judge if Cookson abide on his election promises. My genuine feeling is however, that he will indeed deliver as promised, and I strongly support his wind of change:

1) Truth and Reconcilliation Process
2) Reform of the UCI AntiDoping Agency into an Independent ADA
3) Implementation of new anticorrupt - more democratic and more business like - UCI governance structures

In his first interview after the election, Cookson already started to deliver on point 1, as per the quote below. 

1) agree and he has given himself 6 months - so he has 6 months

2) womens cycling - season starts euro spring - he has to start before and get the process going

3 and 4 are your 2,3 ,

 will add a 5 be more open with the business of the UCI ie Prez wages etc

ps when do we get a red light avatar 

[just some guy]

New UCI president Brian Cookson promises changes

[LukasCPH]

2) womens cycling - season starts euro spring - he has to start before and get the process going

He has a chance to do something there already. On the 2014 calendar, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda World Cup and Gent-Wevelgem are held on the same date, and the Trofeo Binda organisers aren't chuffed about it:

The World Cup will be held on the 30 March. Or maybe not.

The International Cycling Union announced the 2014 sport calendar.  The Trofeo Binda has been confirmed as a world cup event, to be held on the 30th of March. Everything under control? “No, I wouldn’t say so” declares Mario Minervino, president of the Cycling Sport Promotion, the organiser of the “best World cup event”, in the UCI’s words. “On the same day, the Gent- Wevelgem race is to be held in Belgium. We’re very disappointed because the UCI has not been sufficiently attentive to  preserving the World Cup events. We’re not afraid of the concurrence, but we want to protect the movement. Once these Worlds are over, we’ll consider closing our World Cup experience.”

The two races have been held on the same date this year (and the year before) too, but until now Gent-Wevelgem was a NE race. Now it has 1.2 status, and will supposedly draw a stronger field and thereby diminish the attraction of the World Cup race on the same day.

The solution is so simple it's almost too simple:
Move the Trofeo Binda one week earlier, to the day of Milano - San Remo. The distance from Milano to Cittiglio is ~70-75 km, if they really wanted they could even have the men and women start together on the Piazza del Duomo, with the men going south and the women going northwest. It would probably make the women's race a bit easier (as there wouldn't be as many laps of the Cittiglio circuit - EDIT: Actually, having checked the 2013 race thread, they started with a 52 km course this year before 4 laps, so it wouldn't actually change much). In time they could add a couple of laps to make it a longer distance. I'd like the concept of having the longest men's race and the longest women's race being held on the same day and setting off from Milano together.

[LukasCPH]

And something else:
With the election now over, would anybody want to speculate who voted for whom?
Unlike at the conclave, we even have the numbers, so we're in a better position to speculate ...

[KeithJamesMc]

Out with the old...

Executive Board
 
President - Pat McQuaid IRL
Vice-President - Hee Wook CHO KOR
Vice-President - Renato Di Rocco ITA
Vice-President - Artur Lopes POR

In with the new...

http://twitter.com/SophieSmith86/statuses/383878442925568000

Obviously some Africans didn't take the party line.

The three new VP's are:
Lappartient David (Europe)
Gaudrey Tracy (Oceania)
Azzam Mohamed Wagih (Africa)

[LukasCPH]

Don't know much about Azzam (he's the Egyptian, right?), but with Lappartient and Gaudry as second-in-command, this ship is already turning into the right direction.

[KeithJamesMc]

And something else:
With the election now over, would anybody want to speculate who voted for whom?
Unlike at the conclave, we even have the numbers, so we're in a better position to speculate ...

My Guess:

Vote	#	Name	Country	Confederation
Cookson	1	Thierry Marechal	Belgium	Europe
Cookson	2	Slavomir Svoboda	Czech Republic	Europe
Cookson	3	Rudolf Massak	Austria	Europe
Cookson	4	Toni Kirsch	Germany	Europe
Cookson	5	Yvonne Mattsson	Sweden	Europe
Cookson	6	Jean Regenwetter	Luxembourg	Europe
Cookson	7	Victoria Lesnikova	Russia	Europe
Cookson	8	Patrice Roy	France	Europe
Cookson	9	Peter deprive	Slovakia	Europe
Cookson	10	Harald Tiedemann Hansen	Norway	Europe
Cookson	11	Umberto Langelotti	Monaco	Europe
Cookson	12	Charles Jackson	Great Britain	Europe
Cookson	13	Marcel Wintels	Netherlands	Europe
Cookson	14	Klaus Mueller	Australia	Oceania
Cookson	15	Richard Leggat	New Zealand	Oceania
Cookson	16	Dominic Sansom	Fiji Islands	Oceania
Cookson	17	Steve Johnson	USA	America
Cookson	18	Jorge Ovidio González	Colombia	America
Cookson	19	Waldo Ortiz	Puerto Rico	America
Cookson	20	Julius Mwangi	Kenya	Africa
Cookson	21	William Newman	South Africa	Africa
Cookson	22	Aimable Bayingana	Rwanda	Africa
Cookson	23	Danilo Correia	Mozambique	Africa
Cookson	24	Winston Crowther	Sierra Leone	Africa
McQuaid	1	Abu Samah Wahab	Malaysia	Asia
McQuaid	2	Cai Jiadong	China	Asia
McQuaid	3	Decha Hemkrasri	Thailand	Asia
McQuaid	4	Nobuhiro Matsukura	Japan	Asia
McQuaid	5	Alfred Li	Hong Kong China	Asia
McQuaid	6	Khalid bin Hamad Al-Khalifa	Bahrain	Asia
McQuaid	7	Majid Ahmed Al-Naimi	Qatar	Asia
McQuaid	8	Allen Chaizhunussov	Kazakhstan	Asia
McQuaid	9	Lee Dae Hoon	Korea	Asia
McQuaid	10	Giovanni Duci	Italy	Europe
McQuaid	11	Gabriel Curuchet	Argentina	America
McQuaid	12	Jose Luis Vasconcellos	Brazil	America
McQuaid	13	Edgar Hernández	Mexico	America
McQuaid	14	Juan Luis Rodriguez	Dominican Republic	America
McQuaid	15	Alfredo Flores	Guatemala	America
McQuaid	16	Trevor Bailey	San Vicente	America
McQuaid	17	Yao Kouame Allah	Ivory Coast	Africa
McQuaid	18	Mohamed Belmahi	Morocco	Africa

Logic:
- all Europeans except Italy for Cookson
- all Oceania for Cookson
- all Asia for McQuaid
- Africa spilt, Cookson managed to convince Commonwealth Nations to vote for him (plus McQuaid aparthaid-era antics)
- Americas split USA & Puerto Rico always for Cookson, Colombia changed mind to Cookson at last minute when he stood up and said let's stop messing around and vote

[Claudio Cappuccino]

New UCI president Brian Cookson promises changes

Yes we CAN!

In a corrupt/not working constitution/''company structure'' replacing one face with the other is not very spectacular.

[Tuart]

Fiji getting a delegate with the power to vote at such an important meeting is ROFL. I mean, what cycling happens in Fiji? When was the last time they sent a rider to an Oceania Champs?

[Joachim]

Yes we CAN!

In a corrupt/not working constitution/''company structure'' replacing one face with the other is not very spectacular.

What would have been really spectacular would have been to elect somebody who hadn't actually stood.

[Vespertine]

I wish he would have his teeth whitened, or cleaned, or something. Not that it has any bearing on his performance, but in these realms sometimes all they have left is style...

[Flo]

I wish he would have his teeth whitened, or cleaned, or something. Not that it has any bearing on his performance, but in these realms sometimes all they have left is style...

Just checked.

Yikes

[L'arri]

Deep in the night when the wind howls, the stairs creak and small animals copulate in the bushes of her garden, Florrina dreams a restless nightmare in which she frantically searches for an exit in the long, dark and empty corridors of Aigle armed only with a single thread of dental floss.

[just some guy]

may not really fit in here , but it does

McQuaid officially removed from list of International Olympic Committee members

A process will now be launched to elect a replacement to fill the position, one of the 15 places allocated to the International Federations under the rules of the Olympic Charter.

It is unlikely to be Cookson, however.

"His successor will not automatically become an IOC member," the spokeswoman told insidethegames.

[froome19]

may not really fit in here , but it does

McQuaid officially removed from list of International Olympic Committee members

A process will now be launched to elect a replacement to fill the position, one of the 15 places allocated to the International Federations under the rules of the Olympic Charter.

It is unlikely to be Cookson, however.

"His successor will not automatically become an IOC member," the spokeswoman told insidethegames.

Great news. I was worried that McQuaid would still be tarnishing sport even when knocked off his pedestal. An ideal location to have done that from, was within the IOC so having him removed at least means there is one less opportunity he has to stick his head back in and dip his fingers in the pie. Though as said in another thread I have my own reservations about the current IOC president..