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On the Record: UCI President David Lappartient.
A busy year for cycling has put the International Cycling Union back in the spotlight.
The sport’s yearly marquee event, the Tour de France, had moments of brilliance and controversy before crowning a new winner, Geraint Thomas, in Paris. Spectator antics, a high number of crashes, and as always concerns over doping in the sport were all major storylines beyond the cycling in Le Tour.
All this does not take into account the doping controversy involving the then-holder of all three Grand Tour jerseys Chris Froome in the weeks before the event.
UCI President David Lappartient took questions from Around the Rings in a wide ranging interview about the current storylines in cycling.
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Olympic Bid Master Mike Lee, 61
Condolences from colleagues and clients are saluting the career of the British expert who helped win Olympic bids.
Mike Lee died Sept. 8 of a heart attack. He was the founder of Vero, the British communications firm that provided counsel to summer and winter Olympic bids.
His first foray into the Olympic bid fray came in 2003 when he joined the team campaigning for the 2012 Olympics in London.
He launched London-based Vero in 2006. He helped Rio de Janeiro with its bid for the 2016 Olympics, PyeongChang for the 2018 Winter Games, Buenos Aires for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and Paris with the 2024 Games.
"Mike was a good friend and a source of inspiration," the Buenos Aires 2018 Organizing Committee said in a statement. "His visionary mind helped to make the dream of celebrating the Youth Olympic Games... come true. We were honored by his warmth and his brilliant writing."
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Americas Boxing Leader Drops Presidential Bid
Argentina boxing leader Osvaldo Bisbal says he will not become a candidate for the presidency of International Boxing Association AIBA.
He said up to a few weeks ago he was considering a run for the post.
"I do not think I'm ready for the moment to dedicate my life to AIBA," says Bisbal, president of the Boxing Confederation of the Americas and one of the vice presidents of the international federation, thus eligible to run for AIBA president.
"To what extent could I, from a financial point of view above all, rescue AIBA from the situation it is in?", wondered the South American boxing leader.
The election is set for November at the AIBA Congress in Moscow.
So far only one candidate, Kazakh Serik Konakbayev, has thrown his hat into the ring to face the current interim president of AIBA, Gafur Rakhimov.
Konakbayev is president of the Asian Boxing Confederation, vice president of AIBA and was a silver medalist at the 1980 Olympic Games.
Bisbal is confident that Rakhimov will officially announce his nomination at any time. The deadline for candidates is September 23. Suitors need the support of 20 national federations to be nominated.
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