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I could be argued that Lance finally being brought to account is exactly what is needed for the sport to progress and truly be seen as 'clean' and its the failure to do so until this point that has stored up issues with the way teams are managed and the sport has been governed.
If you look at Fifa and Seb Blatter it took immense external pressure for him to even pretend to take corruption seriously... The fact is that the sums of money at stake and the World Cup franchise especially is worth billions so there is even more vested interest in things continuing as normal despite there being endemic problems.
Believing that attracting more money and more sponsors to cycling will solve or heal any problems is pretty deluded if the people in charge of doing so are already selling their souls for a quick buck.
McQuaid strikes me as being even more 2D in his governance and the fact that he and Verbruggen haven't pursued Landis over his accusations of corruption is pretty damning in that respect. You can't claim to represent the sport in one regard and then disassociate yourself from the negative so easily.
So tr:dr indeed but when legweak and his chipmunk sidekick are strung up and banned i think that will present a good image of cycling that they have been pursued so doggedly and that the mechanisms within the sport exist to weed out cheats and corruption and attract new sponsors on those grounds as opposed to sweeping it all under the carpet for another 12 years when it will inevitably resurface under a different guise.
That said, i'm off to dope myself with a beer and some chicken.