Malaysia's Darshan Singh decided to withdraw from the UCI's presidential elections made today in Madrid. Cyclingnews spoke with him just after Pat McQuaid was elected new president. "The election has taken place and there is the result," said Singh. "We must respect the result given by the delegates.
"I withdrew because I felt I don't have the opportunity to lead all the delegates. Early on, I didn't have the names, I didn't have the addresses, so I withdrew. But never mind, I withdrew and I hoped that the election was run cleanly and the election is completed. The result is there, I can not say anything else," concluded the Malaysian. who is abandoning international cycling management today.
Meanwhile, the president of the Argentinean Cycling Federation Gabriel Curuchet was one of the voters. He commented to us, "This is a time that the world of cycling is undergoing many changes with the ProTour and with many projects for the long term. Now the UCI is in the hands of a person who has been following the UCI policy for many years. He will certainly keep on with the kind of projects that give more importance to federations like ours, that has the chance to be a part of a World Championship. This policy also tries to develop cycling outside Europe. The UCI is doing that little by little, and I think that with him [Pat McQuaid] this will continue."
