• reckon he has got some big skeletons in the closet he needs to keep hidden, and clinging onto power by any means necessary, and leaving cycling with zero credibility in the process is probably the only way he can stop them coming out.

    If he does manage to stay in power cycling will be blown away with breakaway leagues forming by various agencies tired of the UCI's. Unfortunately it may be the death knell of some of Europe's older races.

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