UCI continues to emabarrass itself

Hey Quaid, want a little cheese with that whine? Denying Astana a ProTour license should be embarrassing enough for the UCI, seeing as disgraced former team Liberty Seguros chief Manolo Saiz still holds a license. Claiming late filing of papers is why is downright pathetic. From cyclingnews.com:

“Quite simply, they haven’t followed the regulations,” said UCI President Pat McQuaid when Cyclingnews contacted him on Thursday evening. “They [Astana] didn’t get their information in on time. It is as simple as that. The regulations are there for all the teams to follow. They know the times, they know the dates, they know what they need to get in and the correct paperwork wasn’t in on time.”

What do these guys have against Astana? The people in charge at the UCI are like a driving road test instructor whose single greatest pleasure in life is to intimidate and fail frightened teenage girls. Way to go, UCI!