Cycling Ireland EGM votes against nominating Pat McQuaid for 3rd term as UCI president

Thank you Ireland.
'500 years of peace and democracy; and what have the Swiss ever given us?... The cockoo clock'*

*Cockoo clock actually invented by Germans.

Does Roche have any credibility left at all? - his is now an opinion that I just don't want to hear.

Dont they understand that Irish cycling will actually have grown in respect around the world for this stance.

Oh and more importantly than the whole UCI / doping..in fact more important than ANY current world affair....WHY OH WHY is Kelly STILL on Eurosport?. Loved him on the bike but in the studio he actually makes me want to watch something else!...bowls perhaps...

Good to alleged cheats giving him backing, says it all really... The fact he keeps fighting is a good thing, the more coverage of this farce, the better chance of getting the whole thing out in the open and shits like verbruggen taken down as well.

McQuaid is the figure head of a rotten insitution. Other heads should roll.

If Cookson doesn't clean up the whole organisation top to bottom while making anti-doping independent nothing will change.

Cookson is part of the old boys club so dont expect anything to change except maybe a more professional approach to not shoing the incompetence and wheeling dealing going on in the name of pro cycling.

Cookson not so long ago was giving his backing to McQuaid so I hardly expect Cookson to do anything different.

I wouldn't read too much into the Kelly thing. He was probably asked "Do you think McPaid should be booted out?", and he responded "Certainly not..." Which is pretty much the only thing he says (apart from "on the rivet", and "making the calculation") during Eurosport commentary.

I believe 32 of the delegates who supported McQuade had double votes (see velonews) so it was actually 91 to 42

Isn't democracy wonderful!

So 74 delegates voted in favour of sweeping doping issues under the carpet for another term? Is that how this should be interpreted...?

Surprised how many voted for him. I probably shouldn't be though, because regardless of everything else, the one thing he has proven to be good at is charming his chums and making deals.

Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly ought to be ashamed of themselves, though hardly surprising in the slightest.

WOW, I really thought the margin would be alot further than that, Just over 55% (55.15%) voting against. I was expecting to see above 70%.

It shows that some of the voters still think Pat is the man for the job....OR, they just want an Irishman in charge? But hang on....does he even want to be Irish anymore, I'm sure he would change his nationality to anything if it meant him holding onto the UCI Presidents seat.

He's already trying to worm his way to be nominated as Swiss....That's hopefully going to fall flat on its face and leave the door wide open for Cookson to walk it.

But then, he'll just find himself another loop hole in these made up rules and get nominated as a member of the Rwandan cycling federation. He's not going to give up easily, but its about time he saw, he's NOT wanted as head of the UCI, he will get NO choosy honorary number like his sidekick Verbruggen and they will both be out on their ear.

Im an Irishman through and through and have been overly proud of Irish cycling and its ability to have a man senior and respected enough to be at the top of the UCI.

Its said a lot for our wee island that we can produce officials of that calibre.

Voting Pat McQuaid out has NOTHING to do with being Irish or nto wanting our federation represented at the highest level.

It should NOT come down to the biased votes of a presidents own country/federation to vote him back in for election.
As reigning President, it should be down to the stakeholders or members to decide fi they are happy with their current president.

We can be thankful that the Irish, in the main, have been honest with their voting, putting nationalism aside and voting on the future of cycling in general.

It should never have come to this, Pat shouldve done more to resist the obvious political interference and made a stand to protect cycling from itself where required. Hopefully this can now be done.

Too little to late - thats Pats only failure.

Pat will fight and twist and turn and use every trick in the book and others to try to remain President, what sort of a future does he have if he looses?

Would you employ him? I certainly would not

it's not over yet, McQuaid is as slippery and deluded as Tony Blair. We underestimate him and those that have benefited from his involvement in the UCI. It also speaks volumes that Roche and Kelly supported him.

Well done (most of) Ireland. I can't wait for McQuaid's paranoiac response. Part of me would have preferred to see Pat lose a Presidential Election (by a landslide), but you can't have everything, unless of course the land of the Toblerone finds some way of backing him.