UK Gov Drops a Bomb: New Investigation Finds Team Sky Uses PEDs

weird wrote:

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Weird, what happens in Westminster-type Parliamentary systems is that they have say 10 different Parliamentary select committees with say 120 members across the lot and membership is allocated according to size (just like Congress) but with one difference, the ruling party, in this case the Conservatives, will dominate finance/expenditure and regulatory committees so that key legislation is passed more swiftly thus leaving less important committees like Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to be controlled by the opposition.

select committees have no role in passing legislation they report that each department does. that what the report is doing hence why it does not go into detail seb coe behavior apart from saying his evidence stretched credibility because they have no authority over the iaaf they do however have over ukad british athletics and british cycling.

Correct but all Bills go through a Parliamentary select committee phase were members of society come forward and voice issues with the bill, sort of a hearing. Obviously the grilling of athletics and cycling are more oversight than legislatory in nature.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

weird wrote:

select committees have no role in passing legislation they report that each department does. that what the report is doing hence why it does not go into detail seb coe behavior apart from saying his evidence stretched credibility because they have no authority over the iaaf they do however have over ukad british athletics and british cycling.

Correct but all Bills go through a Parliamentary select committee phase were members of society come forward and voice issues with the bill, sort of a hearing. Obviously the grilling of athletics and cycling are more oversight than legislatory in nature.

Incorrect--the committees involved in the committee stage of a bill are Public Bill Committees (or a "whole house" committee in the cace of finance bills and particularly controversial legislation, which is where the House of Commons as a whole acts as a committee). Public Bill Committees are different beasts from the Select Committees and are formed for the purpose of scrutinising a particular bill (used to be called Standing Committees and most parliamentarians still use the old name).

Select Committees haven't scrutinised legislation for years, with one exception (the Armed Forces Bill is scrutinised by the Defence Select Committee to ensure that commie peaceniks don't have any input). They do generally manage to be quite independent, and parliamentarians generally try to ensure their independence. However, they have no power other than to hear testimony and publish reports, so it doesn't matter.

Well, as we now know, Coe didn't just read one email, he also didn't read several text messages and switched off his ears during Bedford's phone call. A bit like Farah, who didn't hear the doorbell, the knocking, the shouting, and the phone call for a whopping 60 minutes straight.

weird wrote:

'intresting passage about coe ' When Lord Coe appeared before the Committee in December 2015 he sought to distance himself from any knowledge of the allegations of doping in Russian athletics, before

the details were exposed in the German documentary. His answers to us about this were misleading: Lord Coe may not have read the email and attachments sent to him by David Bedford, whose actions we commend, but it stretches credibility to believe that he was not aware, at least in general terms, of the main allegations that the Ethics Commission had been asked to investigate. '

YMMV wrote:

Dr Zorzoli wrote:

Don't forget Linford and Dwayne.

The Russians are adamant that a certain female Brit 400m runner tested positive in Beijing 2008.

Oh yeah I forgot Catherine "Hide-and-seek" Ohurougu, Linford "I'm Natty" Christie and Dwayne "Tail-between-my-legs" Chambers .

Perhaps you are thinking of Christine Ohuruogo?

sternburg wrote:

UK has the sneakiest government on earth. I am suprised that they make this public.

Not true, the British government has generally stood strong against wrongdoing for the last few 100 years.

They are now standing strong against corporate-backed doping in sports and are not taking any nonsense.