[font=Times New Roman]Looks like Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) Executive Director Steve Lacelle has given up his quarterly report cards.[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Who can blame him! [/font]
[font=Times New Roman]The CCA has failed to meet almost every objective it set for itself since May 2005. Before that it never set objectives so it is more difficult to monitor the failure but not to perceive it.[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Still, Mr. Lacelle, who had absolutely no cycling experience whatsoever when he was hired to run the sport for the country, is an M. B. A*. Since Lacelle has done nothing for the sport you’d expect an MBA to at least write you a decent report with pretty graphs and pie charts but Lacelle is not even doing that anymore.[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Steve must be too busy making excuses for Kim Sebrango his Marketing Director who has not signed one meaningful new sponsorship in more than a year and who cannot seem to even get the logos on the web site of the ridiculous sponsorships she did sign (Delta Hotels for discounts on rooms rider will never use and HR Block to do CCA member taxes returns at a discount!!!!)[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]So the embarrassment in Ottawa continues while the sport continues to swirl around the toilet bowl before fully disappearing down the [censored].[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Give us a quarterly report, Steve, your last one was January 31 2006: ([/font][font=Times New Roman]canadian-cycling.comCCA COO Report Q3 2005.pdfOpen ↗[/font][font=Times New Roman]) [/font]
[font=Times New Roman]What are you waiting for? It is the second half of August. Did you think we would forget?[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Where is Q4? Where are Q1 2006 and Q2????[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Document your pathetic performance, Steve. We’re waiting…….[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]*Some people might ask, “How can somebody with ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE IN A GIVEN SPORT become the Executive Director of that sport’s national governing body? How can that make sense?”[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Certainly that is a legitimate question.[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Here’s how it came about. Lacelle and Sebrango were hired by former CCA President Bill Kinash, the only one-term President in CCA history. Kinash knew next-to-nothing about the sport so he hired somebody with even less knowledge about it than himself. Lacelle knew NOTHING about the sport AT ALL so he hired Sebrango who seems to know next-to-nothing about anything, since she did poor work at Soccer Canada and Skate Canada prior to doing next-to-nothing at the CCA.[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]Hard to believe that’s how your tax dollars and membership fees are being spent, but there you have it. [/font]