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Touchline • Issue 14 • 25
Lance Armstrong
has no place in
cycling,” says
Pat McQuaid,
president of the
International
Cycling Union.
“He deserves to
be forgotten in
cycling.”
Tour director Christian Prudhomme added:
“Lance Armstrong is no longer the winner
of the Tour de France from 1999-2005.”
Amidst all the teeth-gnashing and
soul-searching, the cycling federations
themselves have in no way escaped the
blow back. There have been rumours
of cheating going as far back as 1999.
The cycling bodies seem to have been
either too influenced, too gutless or too
enamoured to do anything concrete about
it. Indeed, international cycling itself has
been beaten bloody by the scandal.
Just one example of how the scandal
has poisoned the whole well, SKINS,
an Australian equipment company, is
threatening to sue the UCI for two million
dollars.
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