Fabian Cancellara has described professional cycling as a mess due to a lack of unity and a global vision for the future, and again challenged Phil Gaimon to a race in response to the American’s suggestions that he may have used mechanical doping during his successful classics and time trial career.
Cancellara made his strong comments during a visit to La Gazzetta dello Sport in Milan. During his long and successful career, the Swiss rider was one of the ‘patrons’ of the peloton and was never afraid to use his status to lead a protest or control the race after a crash or incident.
Despite retiring in 2016, he still ready to speak his mind about the sport the sport that gave him so much.
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Cancellara dismisses world champion Peter Sagan as a possible new leader of the peloton, suggesting the problems of the sport are elsewhere.
“With the results he has, Peter could be a leader of the peloton but it’s not his thing. He’s a rockstar, an individualist. If only there were more like him. The problems are elsewhere,” Cancellara told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“The foundations are the problem: the UCI, the big organisers, the teams and riders. There’s a lack of unity and a global vision for the future. It’s a bordello [a mess or, literally, a brothel - ed.] The politics of the sport don’t work and so everyone suffers. Everyone just thinks about what they can earn in the short term. Yet cycling, for the emotions it gives people, has enormous potential. Sadly that’s not used in the right way.”
Challenging Gaimon
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