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Last Post 07/05/2014 06:38 PM by Ride On. 15 Replies.
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07/05/2014 06:38 PM
Brian Cookson's son Ollie works for Team Sky raising a possible conflict of interest with his father's powerful role as UCI president but he dismissed that idea, pointing to the checks and controls in place within the UCI.

"People think I'm sitting in my office like a Svengali controlling all of these things. Of course, that's not true," he said, with an air of despair.

"Every process that the UCI has, licences or whatever, is conducted through a proper process and independent scrutiny. There are commissions and audits. What we done is establish a process that does not include the UCI president or anyone on the UCI Management Committee with anything involved in anti-doping."

"It wouldn’t matter if my son was a rider with Team Sky, Movistar or any other team. I don’t get involved and will never get involved in who is tested, or in disciplinary action. If I went down that road it would be a disaster for us. I can guarantee 100% that I wouldn't get involved in that way, so it doesn't matter on the nationality of a team or a rider. We treat them all the same."
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