LAUSANNE, May 16, 2013 (AFP) - International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid can count on the support of the Swiss federation in his bid for re-election, the sport's global governing body said Thursday. Controversial figure McQuaid is aiming for a third term in office when elections take place in September. The Swiss federation's endorsement has rescued McQuaid from a … [Read more...]
Cycling And Anti Doping Bodies Announce Tour de France Deal
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PARIS, April 29, 2013 - The International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Monday that it has agreed to cooperate fully with the French anti-doping body at this year's Tour de France. The two bodies had been at loggerheads since March's Paris-Nice race but have now found common ground ahead of the sport's glamour event. "The UCI and the independent Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation … [Read more...]
UCI Rejects USADA Claims Over Lance Armstrong
April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PARIS, April 26, 2013 (AFP) - Cycling's world governing body on Friday roundly rejected claims from the man who brought down Lance Armstrong that they had contributed nothing to the fight against doping in the sport. The head of the the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Travis Tygart told a French Senate hearing on Thursday that the International Cycling Union (UCI) had blocked efforts to … [Read more...]
UCI Did Nothing To Fight Doping Says USADA Tygart
April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PARIS, April 25, 2013 (AFP) - World cycling's governing body, the UCI, has contributed nothing to the fight against doping in the sport, the head of the US Anti-Doping Agency told the French Senate on Thursday. Travis Tygart, giving evidence under oath to a Senate commission on doping, said the UCI "did everything to put obstacles in our way" over the Lance Armstrong affair. He … [Read more...]
UCI Suspends Russia’s Valery Kaykov Over Doping
April 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
GENEVA, April 11, 2013 (AFP) - Cycling's global governing body the UCI on Thursday announced that Russian rider Valery Kaykov had been suspended provisionally after failing an out-of-competition doping test. The UCI said that it acted after a lab in the German city of Cologne, accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency, found that an A-sample of Kaykov's urine contained GW1516 … [Read more...]
UCI Lawyer Calls For Strong Eufemiano Fuentes Sentence
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MADRID, March 20, 2013 (AFP) - A lawyer representing the International Cycling Union (UCI) has said that Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes should be made an example of for running possibly "the biggest doping network the world has ever seen". Fuentes and four co-accused are currently on trial in Madrid charged with endangering public health by performing blood transfusions on a number … [Read more...]
UCI Warns Against WorldSeries Breakaway League
March 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PARIS, March 5, 2013 (AFP) - Cycling's world governing body has said it is against plans to create a new WorldSeries in the sport, amid reports of talks about a possible breakaway competition featuring top teams. "The UCI does not want a league," the president of the International Cycling Union, Pat McQuaid, said at the weekend. "But we still have to develop professional cycling and it's … [Read more...]
French Anti-Doping Agency To Work With The UCI At Tour de France
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PARIS, Feb 28, 2013 (AFP) - The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) on Thursday gave the green light to working with cycling's governing body, the UCI, during the Tour de France. The AFLD will not, however, take part in doping tests taken during the Paris-Nice race which starts on Sunday. Those tests will be adminstered by the UCI alone. Thursday's statement by the AFLD marks an … [Read more...]
Katusha’s World Tour Return Paris-Nice and Criterium Swells Teams To 23
February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
uci, world tour, team katusha, paris-Nice PARIS, Feb 19, 2013 (AFP) - Katusha's successful appeal to be reintegrated into cycling's World Tour means 23 teams instead of the usual 22 will line up for the Paris-Nice and Criterium du Dauphine races, organisers ASO announced on Tuesday. "We aren't going to leave a team by the side of the road," Christian Prudhomme, director of the two … [Read more...]
Katusha Appeal Win Means 19-team World Tour
February 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
PARIS, Feb 18, 2013 (AFP) - Cycling's World Tour will feature 19 teams this season, instead of 18, after Russian cycling team Katusha won their appeal to be reinstated, the sport's world governing body UCI announced on Monday. "Exceptionally there are 19 registered UCI ProTeams in the 2013 season," a UCI statement read. "The decision comes further to the Court of Arbitration for … [Read more...]