Update An independent commission that investigated the doping past of the International Cycling Union UCI, has plenty to criticize in Hein Verbruggen. But the former president says that no evidence has been found for the most serious allegations. Lance Armstrong has not tested positive in the Tour of Switzerland, there is no doping case swept under the carpet, and there is no indication that there has been a financial agreement between the American cyclist and Verbruggen.
The partly in Lausanne resident sports director retired says that after he has seen the “through-via” obtained report of the committee CIRC.
,, There’s a lot of what we could have done better but that’s easy, 25 years later. And there is a lot of criticism of me, I was a dictator and was too close to Armstrong. They had obviously come up with something. “” The UCI makes the report public until Monday.
Verbruggen was from 1991 to 2005, president of the UCI. It was an era when the doping problem started to play an increasing role but the size was really clear after Armstrong was unmasked. The American hit wildly and no longer came under the tall claim that a positive test of his had suppressed in 2001.
A doping case of the cure of cancer hero who also broke open the US market could miss the UCI as toothache. Verbruggen: ,, It was very important to me that those allegations are of the world. The report is clear about that. Armstrong was not positive in the 2001 Tour of Switzerland so there is nothing stopped under the table and no indication of corruption. ”
,, It is a critical report, I find it unfair critical. I was too close to Armstrong, like my successor Pat McQuaid. One example was that we asked him signatures for cancer patients who had consulted us. And we have adopted donations. The Committee believes that not wise. ”
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