The 'Pat McQuaid's An Official Asshole' Thread

It all goes down tomorrow. I reckon he's going to win somehow through skulduggery.

God for'fucking'bid it!

Cookson won, 24-18.

thank fuck.

Sounded like a total farce.

The King is dead, long live the president!

Let's see him fund Muddy Hell as his first act.

how do you know it's not on any news wires yet nor the uci website
vote doping going on ?

Have you heard of twitter, dicki?

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  Briton Brian Cookson has been elected president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) ahead of incumbent Pat McQuaid, world cycling's governing body have confirmed on their Twitter account.
  
  
  
  

Interesting to see what happens now. Kimmage is still not impressed with Cookson, but he has to be better than McQuaid.

Road CC write up here.

http://road.cc/content/news/95035-uci-election-mcquaid-vs-cookson-battle-too-close-call-vote-tied-proposed-election

Ignore what the URL says. They've updated the page.

Ding dong the witch is dead

Who are the people who actually voted for McQuaid and why?

^ $$$ & Favours.

^ $$$ & Favours.

Cookson may not be innocent of that.

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

https://twitter.com/SkyOrla

...still good news though.

Europe, the US and Canada and Oceania all publicly backed Cookson, presumably some of the smaller nations backed McQuaid, certainly Thailand and Morocco did, and someone from St Kitts or something wrote a letter slagging off Cookson, rather ironically comparing his campaign to Apartheid. McQuaid must have loved that.

Cookson may not be innocent of that.

https://twitter.com/SkyOrla

Hmmm.... smacks of last minute sabotage by the other party, to me. The bit I liked was that the UCI stated that they received the allegation and decided to make it public despite not having time to investigate it or to determine who it really came from.

Lol

@LanceArmstong Hallelujah!

Shouldn't all of this be in the Epic Win thread?

Great news. Could be some lights on well into the early hours at Aigle tonight as Pat spends an evening shredding documents.

Maybe Pat will apply for Cookson's now vacant post as head of British cycling :)

Presumably his home federations of Thailand and Morocco will have some work for him.

Ballsy of Cookson to demand the vote despite debate about whether McQuaid was even eligible to stand against him. Now we'll watch the dust settle and see if the circus is still being run by the clowns.

Presumably, the 'official' in the thread title should now be amended to 'unofficial'?

Ballsy

Unlikely. He probably knew what the outcome would be.

Be interesting to see who stays and goes in the UCI heirarchy now; so many people been around since the HV days.