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UCI may question former boss over Armstrong allegations

Updated on: 19 November,2013 12:48 AM IST  | 
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Former UCI president Hein Verbruggen could be called before the independent commission investigating historical doping allegations and claims of complicity to the top of world cycling.

UCI may question former boss over Armstrong allegations

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong claimed in The Daily Mail yesterday that Verbruggen was involved in a cover-up over a positive test for a steroid in 1999, the year he won his first of seven Tour de France titles.


Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong


UCI president Brian Cookson, who succeeded Verbruggen’s successor Pat McQuaid in September, has made an independent inquiry, in conjunction with the World Anti-Doping Agency, a priority and is especially keen to investigate allegations of corruption.

Armstrong, who was banned for life and stripped of his seven Tour titles last year, would be welcome to give evidence, so too would Verbruggen.u00a0Verbruggen has always vehemently denied wrongdoing.


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