Sioran Cycling Association

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The Syoran Cycling Association will have elections this year, the first to be hold in character.

Between today and October 2, applications for candidates are open.

Voting will be opened between October 3 and 23. The elections are being hold IC on Vintyr 1579.


Rules:

1. Any nation which has a cycling federation as active member of the Sioran Cycling Association can propose a candidate, but no more than one per nation.

2. The elected president of the Sioran Sycling Association will have a limited control on SCA decisions and public statements, but not an absolute one. Just for RP and realism purposes.

3. The anti-doping stance of your candidate will have a OOC impact of the % chances of doped riders to test positive, as new RP feature.

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Application form:

Code:

[quote][b]Candidate Name:[/b]
[b]Candidate Nation:[/b]
[b]Candidate Age:[/b]
[b]Candidate Info:[/b] History, current position and role, and those hold in the past
[b]Candidate Program:[/b] What does the candidate plan to achieve as SCA Chairman, his proposals and promises
[b]Anti-doping stance:[/b] Permissive/Moderate/Zero-tolerance (choose one) [Based both his electoral platform and reputation in SCA][/quote]

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Examples:

Candidate Name: Georges Marquette
Candidate Nation: Valland
Candidate Age: 64
Candidate Info: Marquette comes from a family of cyclists. Both his father and uncle were professional riders, winning the later three Tour de Valland individual stages during the 1520s. He is also married with a Eskkyan retired professional cyclist and sport journalist. Marquette became professional cyclist in 1534 but retired in 1538. From 1541 to 1552, he was president of the Vallish Association of Professional Riders.

He was chairman of the Vallish Cycling Association from 1555 to 1566. He's often praised for modernizing the cycling federation, improving its finances, and introducing important administrative reforms. However, early 1560s were years of many doping scandals, some of them involving Vallish teams, specially during the 1561 and 1564 Tour de Valland. He was often criticized to not doing enough to fight doping during those years, and two Vallish Cycling Association officials had to resign for corruption and covering doped riders. But Vallish courts cleared Marquette of any wrongdoing.

He was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Sioran Cycling Association in 1569, after Alstarian Christian Sondermüller was elected as Chairman, and he remained in the position until today. Despite the controversies which surrounded Marquette's years in the Vallish Association, Sondermüller was elected on a strict platform against doping in cycling, and Sondermüller and Marquette passed several reforms to improve the fight against doping and increase the budget for anti-doping testing. As his right-hand, Marquette is seen as a candidate which will continue Sondermüller's policies.
Candidate Program: Marquette has promised to continue the fight against doping, and to improve SCA finances.
Anti-doping stance: Moderate

Candidate Name: Stanislav Srebotnjek
Candidate Nation: Mordvania
Candidate Age: 46
Candidate Info: A retired professional road race cyclist, he rode most of his career in Biyran and Ceribian teams, with very modest achievements. In 1568, he was hired by the Mordvanian Cycling Federation to manage the Mordvanian Youth cycling team. He was elected chairman of the Mordvanian Cycling Federation in 1574.
Candidate Program: Srebotnjek has promise a zero-tolerance policy to fight doping and corruption in the SCA. His main proposal is to introduce a life-ban for those cyclists who test positive after returning from a sanction for doping. Another of his controversial proposals is that Global Tour cycling races are not forced to invite a top SCA Ranking teams if they had at least three riders tested for positive for doping in the previous two seasons, even if the teams are cleared of any direct wrongdoing.

Srebotnjek has also proposed creating a fund for promoting cycling between youth, and to study the creation of continental championships for national teams.
Anti-doping stance: Zero-tolerance