That house of cards continues to totter with Tyler Hamilton wading into the chaos of the Armstrong doping scandal by issuing a statement calling for UCI president Pat McQuaid to resign. The former US Postal rider and team-mate of Armstrong accused McQuaid of hypocrisy in his leadership and is quoted as saying, ‘Instead of seizing an opportunity to instil hope for the next generation of cyclists, he continues to point fingers, shift blame and attack those who speak out, tactics that are no longer effective.’ Adding, with a spin on McQuaid’s own comment on Armstrong, ‘Pat McQuaid has no place in cycling.’
John Fahey, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has mudded the waters further and clearly demonstrated that no clear line will be drawn under the problems any time soon by calling on the UCI to take further action with regards to exposing the full extent of the problem. Fahey said, ‘They (the UCI) clearly have to take the blinkers off, look at the past, examine the people who are there, ask themselves the questions, “Are those same people still in the sport and can they proceed forward with those people remaining?”’
Some time soon Cyclo hope to bring you some non-Armstrong related news…