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Lance Armstrong (pic courtesy Photosport International)Updated: UCI queries reasons behind delay in USADA's delivery of Lance Armstrong report
Updated: The UCI has this afternoon issued an angry response to news of a delay the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) sending it a full report on its decision last month to ban Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of results including his seven Tour de France victories. Earlier this week, USADA CEO Travis Tygart had said that the report would be sent to the UCI by the end of this month. Now, one of his colleagues has revealed it will no be delivered until mid-October.
In a statement issued today, the governing body said:
"The UCI wonders why it is taking USADA so long to provide its reasoned decision and case file.
"Reports state that its decision has been delayed because it is continuing to gather evidence and that it has yet to complete its case file.
“'The UCI had no reason to assume that a full case file did not exist but USADA’s continued failure to produce the decision is now a cause for concern,” said Mr McQuaid, UCI President.
“'It is over a month since USADA sanctioned Lance Armstrong. We thought that USADA were better prepared before initiating these proceedings” said Mr McQuaid.
"It seems that it would have been more useful for USADA to have used the time of the Tour de France, the Olympic Games and the Road World Championships to prepare their case in full rather than to make announcements.
"It is at very least unusual that USADA would still be gathering evidence against a person after it has found that person guilty.
"The UCI assumes that the reasons for any difficulty in putting the evidence together will be explained in USADA’s decision.
"The UCI has requested USADA to provide its decision and case file and has learnt of the reported delays through the media and not by any official communication from USADA. The sooner UCI receives the decision and case file the sooner UCI can provide its response."
According to a report yesterday on the website Sport 24, no explanation was given for the delay in an email to Reuters from USADA’s Annie Skinner in which she said that the agency “is in the process of finalising the written reasoned decision in its US Postal Services pro cycling doping case.
"We will provide the reasoned decision addressing the lifetime bans and disqualifications imposed to the UCI and WADA as provided for under the world rules. We expect it to be sent no later than October 15," she added.
USADA imposed its sanctions on Armstrong after the 41-year-old announced that he did not intend to fight its charges through arbitration, although he continues to deny that he doped during his career.
In the days preceding his announcement, Armstrong lost a civil court case in which he had challenged USADA's jurisdiction and claimed that his constitutional right to due process had been violated.
While he is banned from all competitive sport sanctioned by the World Anti-Doping Code, he is continuing to compete in a variety of events not bound by those rules.
Earlier this month, UCI president Pat McQuaid told Reuters: “Unless the USADA's decision and case file give serious reasons to do otherwise, the UCI has no intention to appeal to CAS [Court of Arbitration for Sport] or not to recognise the USADA's sanctions on Lance Armstrong.
"The UCI assumes that the decision and file will also detail the sanction the USADA may wish to enforce upon the riders who have provided testimony in exchange for reduced sanctions," he added.
Despite the ban, Armstrong has continued to ride and run in non sanctioned races and, during a recent Montreal speech to a cancer conference, referred to himself as a seven times Tour de France winner.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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They have to provide not just the UCI, but also the IOC, WADA, US Cycling and Armstrong with their "Reasoned Decision" for their Aug 24th judgement under Article 8.3 of the WADC.
The fact that they have been so far unable/unwilling to do that raises serious questions!
Accoridng to the latest update this is whats been happening:
The long-awaited report into Lance Armstrong's lifetime ban from cycling should be sent to the sport's governing body, the UCI, by 15 October.
Cycling's governing body, the International Cycling Union, is awaiting the report before deciding whether or not to confirm Armstrong's ban.
UCI president Pat McQuaid admitted it was likely to be a case of rubberstamping Usada's decision though.
"Unless the Usada's decision and case file give serious reasons to do otherwise, the UCI has no intention to appeal to Court of Arbitration for Sport or not to recognise the Usada's sanctions on Lance Armstrong," he said
Thats a straight lift from the BBC website.
Now that IS intriguing. Over the last two days Travis Tygart has got more confrontational as Pat McQuaid has got less...Lets hope the show lives up to the hype, as the saying goes.
This'll be the image you're looking for...
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What a great picture from Low Speed Wobble! I love it!!
I used to really respect this guy. Now I think he's such an arse.
That he doped, regularly and serially, is now beyond any reasonable doubt and he deserves all the vilification and every punishment that the cycling world seems ready to mete out to him - his (former) fans especially.
The only decent thing this once all-powerful gobshite can do now is own up to it, confess and humbly apologise to all and everyone that he has fooled, insulted, duped and successfully sued.
Armstrong - you're nothing to no one anymore.
And if you want his books in pristine hard cover, pls write me and I'll send them to you. I want nothing more to do with anything Armstrong, says, writes or thinks.
Disgusted of Berkshire!!
It's been over 13 years since Armstrong tested positive for corticosteroids in the '99 TdF. It's been over 7 years since L'Equipe revealed that a WADA accredited lab in '04 had found EPO in 6 samples taken from Armstrong in the '99 tour. It's been over 6 years since David Walsh and Pierre Ballester published "L.A. Confidentiel" which included eye-witness testimony that Lance doped. It's been more than 2 years since Floyd Landis came out with detailed allegations of Armstrong doping, including a revelation that UCI made a '01 EPO positive result go away - a result which the head of the lab concerned, Dr Martial Saugy, has since described as a "suspicious result" which he notified the UCI of. etc. etc.
And yet the greatest injustice in all this, according to some, is that USADA is taking 2 months to write up the report on this (indeed, it'll be just 1½ months if they deliver it mid-October)?
And that despite the fact they were sued by Armstrong immediately before giving a finding, and got nastygrammes from McQuaid, effectively backing up Armstrong. Which almost certainly requires an extra level of legal argument to go in to the report, and double-checking of everything, to ensure its reasoning is water-tight against UCIs' jurisdiction claims.
There's more than a decades worth of allegations against Armstrong. None of which have been properly investigated by a body with sanctioning power, because the UCI has ignored them, dismissed allegations out of hand and, worst of all, even sued those making allegations. It's possible that it's only because Floyd Landis emailed USADA that an independent body, without a vested interest in Armstrong but with authority over him, was able to investigate him.
Regardless of the result of an investigation, it is right that allegations be properly investigated. Indeed, it is crucial for the integrity of the sport. USADA ultimately found against him, but had Armstrong been innocent, it would have been as important to investigate so as to clear him.
It's not USADA that has delayed this investigation, delayed the results, or delayed justice. It's the UCI.
Well said mate, its been to long in coming and i for one will not miss the constant "is he or isnt he" arguements. You never know it might actually be the straw that breaks the UCI backs. If the report outlines their involvement in hiding or making results disappear it will make the likes of McQuaid's position untenable (is that the right word ?)
Thanks stumps.
Stuck a slightly edited version, updated with links to sources at http://t.co/q6lHk1zj .
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