POWER LIST 2009

How five years change everything. Here’s how Procycling saw the sport’s movers and shakers back in 2009…

1 Hero, Lance sportsman, Armstrong campaigner

2 Pat McQuaid

Current UCI president

3 Hein Verbruggen Former UCI president, current string puller

4 Marie Odile Amaury

Tour de France owner

5 Anne Gripper

UCI anti-doping chief

6 Andrew Messick

President, AEG Sports 7 Christian Prudhomme Tour de France race organiser

8 Yozo Shimano

Shimano president

9 Jeremy Darroch

Sky Chief Executive

10 Bob Stapleton Columbia Highroad owner

11 Angelo Zomegnan Giro d’Italia race organiser

12 Jacques Rogge

IOC president 13 Vaughters Jonathan

Garmin team manager

14 Eddy Merckx Belgian icon, world’s greatest ever cyclist

15 Igor Makarov Russian multi-millionaire and Katusha team owner

16 Patrick Lefevere Quick-Step team manager

17 Tom Boonen Belgium’s off the rails Mr Nice

18 Mark Cavendish Sprinter, millionaire, brand ambassador

19 Dick Pound

Former WADA president

20 John Fahey Current WADA president

21 Michele Ferrari Doctor/coach at the centre of cycling’s most infamous doping cases

22 Dave Brailsford British Cycling’s performance director 23 24 Katusha Andrei Ettore team Torri Tchmil manager Italian Olympic Committee prosecutor

25 Emilia Fahlin “Cycling’s Maria Sharapova?”

26 Kevin Sireau Current 200m track record holder

27 Antonio Serrano Judge presiding over Operación Puerto

28 Jean Wauthier

UCI technical consultant

29 Andy Schleck

“Tour winner in waiting”

30 Gerard Vroomen

Co-founder of Cervélo

31 Alberto Contador Hailed in 2009 as “the next Armstrong”

32 Bjarne Riis Saxo Bank team manager

33 Mino Auletta President of the Court of Arbitration for Sport 34 David Millar The peloton’s most reformed doper

35 Phil Liggett Cycle sport commentator

36 Paul Sherwen Cycle sport commentator

37 Simon Smart Cycling’s foremost aerodynamicist

38 Italian Renato national Di Rocco federation president

39 Cedric Vasseur International Association of Professional Riders president

40 Jim Ochowicz

America’s ‘Mr Cycling’

41 Franco Ballerini

Italian national coach

42 Oscar Pistorius Test case in debate over medical performance enhancers

43 Mike Sinyard

Specialized CEO

44 Johan Le Bon

France’s great hope

45 Taylor Phinney

America’s great hope

46 Alex Carera

Sports agent

47 Jonny Carera

Sports agent

48 Paul de Geyter

Sports agent

49 Rolf Aldag Columbia Highroad team manager

50 Paul Kimmage Journalist, career-long thorn in Lance Armstrong’s side