FP's performance yesterday was all about making it all about Lance. He dodged the difficult issues of what happens to prize money and so on.
He was clearly flustered when asked about the donations from LA that coincided with the reclassification of a drug test failure as an acceptable prescribed drug issue but failed to deal with the question in any meaningful way.
Verbruggen, who is clearly still active at the top of the UCI, was nowhere to be seen, and despite FP 's efforts to point out how things have improved since 2005 when he took over, he didn't want to talk about the UCI's role in doping prior to that, and conveniently glossed over the scandals that have come to light on his watch.
The UCI need to acknowledge that the majority of cycling fans, and much of the industry, views it as a dinosaur of an organisation, happy to sit on a gravy train of globalisation yet unwilling to rid itself of the air of corruption and complacency that has shredded its reputation.
FP will fall on his sword, it's just a matter of when.
