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Wow. I love this photo in this article.

Have you ever seen three men who trust and respect one another so much? Wow. They look so confident in their alliance and their belief in one another. McQuaid (as portrayed by a pudgy Michael Caine, apparently) actually looks like he's concerned that Prudhomme's hand is poisoned and it looks as if Lefevere is ready to bolt the second a member of the Belgian press corp questions him about employing an admitted doper. I do hope Lefevere asked McQuaid if he thought the genetically imperfect Mafioso of southern Europe could be reeled in for this fight.

So, yes. These are the knuckleheads who are going to fix the doping problem in cycling. Because they've been doing a great job of it so far. You see, when something is not working what you do is this:

1. Get all the same people who have been involved for decades, from various levels, and make sure they continue doing what they do. New ideas are bad.
2. Get those people together and have them talk about how bad doping is and how those naughty athletes need to be punished.
3. Someone, at some point, should bring up the theoretical possibility of genetic doping.
4. Talk about how your doping program is working. No YOURS is great. No REALLY.
5. Blame it all on Floyd Landis and Jan Ullrich. After all, they started this whole damn thing. It's not like there was an event 9 years ago that we all should have learned from or something.
6. Do NOT ask Lefevere about his team results for 2007.
7. Do NOT bring up the doping system. Do not acknowledge that anyone else should be held responsible in a AAF other than the athlete. Certainly a DS would be in the dark. No team doctor or soigneur would be involved. Continue thinking that athletes act alone. Ignore the grassy knoll. Do not pass go.
8. All agree that doping is very bad and something needs to be done. This is important: Don't actually come up with new ideas.
9. Shake hands, pat each other on the back.
10. Lefevere and McQuaid team up and beat the crap out of Prudhomme in the parking lot.

UPDATE: I have footage of the meeting. It starts with Prudhomme drinking his first Guinness (courtesy of McQuaid). As you can see, they are getting along very well and even tried fielding their own team for the 2007 Tour!



While they are all together, can they add something to the ban list? Seriously, this must never be allowed to happen again. My eyes burn!