Uci Shuts Down Independent Commission
The Independent Commission set up by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to investigate the Lance Armstrong doping scandal has been disbanded by the governing body.
The UCI claimed that a planned move to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission with the engagement of stakeholders including USADA and WADA would replace the Independent Commission. The UCI also claimed that the new process would launch later this year, though there are no public indications from other stakeholders that they are as confident of that as cycling’s governing body.
A number of press reports and figures in cycling have raised concerns that the governance issues the Independent Commission had been tasked to investigate will now not receive the attention they deserve. The Independent Commission revealed last week that the UCI had failed to submit a single document that it had requested.
The three-person commission – chaired by Philip Otton, a former judge in England’s Court of Appeal, and including British Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Australian lawyer Malcolm Holmes – had been set up in response to a report from USADA into the Lance Armstrong scandal that resulted in the Texan being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.
