Originally Posted by
mprelaw
Just to clarify. USADA didn't strip the titles. USADA is an arm of WADA. UCI had the option of appealing USADA's recommendations to CSA, the court of sporting appeals. They chose to adopt USADA's recommendations.
This hints to the part of this I'm entertained by:
Travis says, We've stripped Lance of his TDF titles.
WADS says, We support the USADA decission
UCI says, NO,
we're stripping Lance of his TDF titles.
And eventually ASO as the ones that actually "own" the event come along and say, We're support the position that there shouldn't be winners for those years.
I can have my fun imagining in my little conspiracy brain how much back room wrangling there has been between those four organizations. I won't be surprised if the fallout continues for a long while.