11th novembre 2012 Words fail me UCI!
It has been a very tough few weeks for cycling. The reasoned decision from USADA (http://cyclinginvestigation.usada.org/) into Lance Armstrong has thrust cycling into the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Questions have been asked about Pat McQuaid's presidency of the UCI, and the lackof action to stamp out doping. Team Sky have forced all their staff and riders to swear that they have not doped or leave the orgnaisation, and some notable ones have left including Bobby Julich and Sean Yates. Then both Bradley Wiggins and Shane Sutton, a coach of Team Sky, were knocked off their bikes within 24 hours of each other. Wiggo left hospital fairly quickly with just a mangled hand and some damaged fingers to deal with. Shane Sutton had bruising to the brain and needs to be kept in hospital for a few days - we wish him a speedy recovery.
Wiggo demonstrated that his fingers were not adversely hurt when leaving hospital :)
And we are greeted by something inexplicable. UCI World Champs next year is being held in Tuscany, north of Florence, I certainly hope I am here to watch that race. Anyway, ridiculous as it sounds to the non-Italians, the UCI have chosen, at this delicate time, to use Pinocchio - the little wooden boy whose nose grew longer when he lied, to be the mascot for the race.
In Italy, Pinocchio is remembered in a different way - it really is a story about Geppetto, an inventor from a small Italian village, making a boy from wood, but the rest of the world focuses on the lying and the nose growing.
If only cyclists were made from wood. Here's to hopes for a clean future.
And here's the route:
http://www.florence2013.com/the-route-world-race-championship/
And here's the route:
http://www.florence2013.com/the-route-world-race-championship/
Ciao.
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