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Verbruggen questions relationship between UCI and WADA
06/18/2015 13:01
Dutchman says WADA was to blame for cycling's bad image
Hein Verbruggen and Lance Armstrong
Former UCI president Hein Verbruggen has launched an attack on Brian Cookson, the man currently at the reins of cycling's governing body. In an article on his newly-launched website entitled 'Brian Cookson's frustration,' Verbruggen claims that Cookson was left frustrated by the Cycling Independent Reform Commission's inability to unearth proof of corruption in the UCI's past, and hence was forced to "change his 'cover-ups' mantra into one about 'significant decisions that caused damage to the UCI,' all of which is based on a clearly biased report."
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