UCI disbands independent Armstrong commission
- Published: 29 Jan 2013 at 04.44
- Online news: World
The International Cycling Union (UCI) announced Monday it had disbanded the independent commission it had set up to investigate alleged involvement by the global governing body in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.
A man in Kensington, Maryland, watches disgraced cycling star Lance Armstrong being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on January 17, 2013. UCI announced Monday it had disbanded the independent commission it had set up to investigate alleged involvement by the global governing body in the Armstrong doping scandal.
The UCI said it was shutting down the commission, which only met in public for the first time on Friday, because both the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the United States Doping Agency (USADA) had refused to co-operate with its investigations and thus any report it produced would be dismissed "as not being complete or credible".
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