I think he has lost it.... why doesn't he hold a doping summit with some of the riders, the teams the federations ensure that no minutes are keep apart from actions and get it all on the table... what has McQuaid been doing since OP (an claiming that he helped uncover the lab) ? This will not help.... (note no mention of the US in his diatrabe)
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UCI President Pat McQuaid has levelled a scathing criticism against 'mafia' Western European nations blaming them for cycling's doping ills.
"There is a clash going on at the moment between two cultures, the Anglo-Saxon and what I might call the mafia Western European culture," the Irishman told Dutch television on Friday.
"The Western European Culture is a culture that has to some extent - I won't say condones doping and cheating practices - but because of their culture in life, because of the way they deal with everything else in life they accept certain practices."
The chief of the International Cycling Union has been battling to protect the sport's legitimacy since the Operation Puerto investigation erupted last May tainting some of the world's best riders with the doping allegations.
Race favourites Ivan Basso of Italy and Jan Ullrich of Germany were both suspended from racing on the eve of the last Tour de France for their alleged parts in the scandal.
Ullrich was subsequently sacked from his German T-Mobile team, while Ivan Basso was cleared to race by his Italian Cycling Federation and has since found a home with the American Discovery Channel squad after leaving CSC.
Charges against more than 50 riders alleged to have involvement with doctor Eufemiano Fuentes have been put on hold after the Spanish judge in the Puerto trial said that sporting authorities could not use evidence from the case in disciplinary hearings against riders.
In the past McQuaid has pleaded with Spanish investigators to release evidence from the May raids, which yielded doping materials and more than a hundred bags filled with frozen blood, but has been thwarted by the ruling judge.
"The Anglo-Saxon [approach], which would be here [the Netherlands], it would be Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark - is the complete opposite," McQuaid continued.
"And they have a completely different approach to the doping fight, and it's evident when you see the approach the teams have made - the German teams in particular there were a major problem in July - and the approach they have taken looking at the future and how they move forward into the future."
"And it is important, I feel, it is very important that at the end of the day the Anglo-Saxon approach wins out - because if it doesn't, then the sport is doomed."