The Ex-President of the world Cycling Federation officials around the turn of the Millennium, one of the most influential sport. In his term of office, the doping victories by Armstrong, Verbruggen of complicity to fall accused.
The Dutch sports official Hein Verbruggen is dead. The longtime President of the world Cycling Association UCI, at the same time, for many years a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), died on Wednesday suffering at the age of 75 years, a cancer.
Verbruggen was officials around the turn of the Millennium, one of the most influential sport. The UCI, he was from 1991 to 2005, in the IOC, he was between 1996 and 2005 as well as 2006 and 2008, member. On the Verbruggens in Cycling, a shadow is. In his tenure, including the seven Tour wins by the US-American Lance Armstrong, the were deprived of the successes of the year in 2012, due to systematic doping but fall.
An independent Commission created the Report, which deals with the Doping past in Cycling, Verbruggen and his successor Pat McQuaid agreed in the Wake of the Armstrong-If later, the comprehensive misconduct. Armstrong accused Verbruggen of the year 2013, he got to his advice at the Tour de France in 1999, is a recipe for back-Dating in order to establish a high cortisol value. Verbruggen denied the allegation. Armstrong had won in 1999, the first of his seven Tour victories.
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