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Do we need more evangelical cheerleading and yelling about “catching the cheats” from politicians and supporters of a confected “war on doping” or some commonsense and critical reflection that makes athletes part of the solution – not all of the the problem?

The problem for the Australia Government now is that it appears that the public version of the Crime Commission report is just the tip of the iceberg. The Government and ASADA are in damage control and the countries top football leagues (Australian football’s AFL and Rugby League’s NRL) are in crisis.

Hodge remembers the ONCE team being a very tight unit, several years before “things changed and it all went bad”.

Others in the Cycling Australia network also need to come clean about their participation – in many different ways – in the long-term corruption of Australian cycling. They need to reveal their roles in maintaining the Armstrong conspiracy and their role in inducting others into that system.

A look back into the dirty flood of money, drugs, power and rumour that swirl around cycling in Australia and elsewhere.

The new Timorese Government is not an oligarchy. For Aristotle an oligarchia designated the rule of the few for the few, rule that was exercised not by the best, but by bad men unjustly. Aristotle differentiated an oligarchy from an aristocracy where government by the few is vested in the best individuals. In the case of Timor the people (civil society) decided the best individuals are those that formed the government led by Xanana. It may be an aristocracy but it is an elected one.

These charges are baseless, motivated by spite and advanced through testimony bought and paid for by promises of anonymity and immunity. Although USADA alleges a wide-ranging conspiracy extended over more than 16 years, I am the only athlete it has chosen to charge. USADA’s malice, its methods, its star-chamber practices, and its decision to punish first and adjudicate later all are at odds with our ideals of fairness and fair play. I have never doped.

The ensuing crisis will ensure … a form of politics in which the government might reign but it no longer governs. For a new world we need a new politics. For bringing this to the attention of many we should be grateful to former PM Rudd.

The paradox of cycling as a profession is that, if we consider both the lack of long-term career paths and the high volume of commitment required to even begin a professional career, it seems highly undesirable…[T]aken as a form of employment, it would be hard to tell why the average professional has devoted themselves so intently to a career which they themselves recognise as tenuous and likely to have a negative impact in the long-term.

The New Cycling pathways research project will release it’s first report; “I Wish I was Twenty One Today – Beyond Doing in the Australian Peloton”. The report’s focus is on the perspectives and experiences of Australian professional cyclists and their cohort as they relate to new directions for their sport. This study engaged with, and ultimately represented the views of those directly affected by anti-doping policy.