{"id":22768,"date":"2013-09-22T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mcquaid-backtracks-on-armstrong-statement\/"},"modified":"2013-09-22T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:00:44","slug":"mcquaid-backtracks-on-armstrong-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mcquaid-backtracks-on-armstrong-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"McQuaid backtracks on Armstrong statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=17535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17535 \" alt=\"Lance Armstrong. Photo: AP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/113d7_lance-armstrong_2674881b-600x374.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lance Armstrong. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p>UCI President Pat McQuaid rethought his previous comments about Lance Armstrong and his role in the sport of cycling.<\/p>\n<p>McQuaid, who is currently running for re-election as UCI President, reflected on Armstrong\u2019s doping and what kind of punishment he deserves for his infractions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I look back at it, I wouldn\u2019t have said that Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. I wouldn\u2019t have said that now. It was a hard statement,\u201d UCI president Pat McQuaid told Dutch newspaper Telegraaf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe large majority of the peloton was on EPO in those years. But I do think Lance deserves harsher punishment because of the fame and wealth he gathered in his career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pat McQuaid was elected UCI president in 2005, just after Armstrong won his seventh and last Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, Lance Armstrong was incredibly arrogant,\u201d the Irishman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/armstrong-to-be-open-when-answering-doping-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">He yelled at everyone who criticized him, even threatened people. He wasn\u2019t the only one on EPO but he does deserve a share of the criticism and punishment he now gets<\/a>.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cyclingnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Lance Armstrong news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/lance-armstrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/113d7_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Armstrong. Photo: AP UCI President Pat McQuaid rethought his previous comments about Lance Armstrong and his role in the sport of cycling. McQuaid, who is currently running for re-election as UCI President, reflected on Armstrong\u2019s doping and what kind of punishment he deserves for his infractions. \u201cWhen I look back at it, I wouldn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}