UCI chief blasts Armstrong’s ‘charity’ Tour return
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LANCE Armstrong’s plan to ride this year’s Tour de France route for charity has been branded “disrespectful” by the head of cycling’s governing body.
The disgraced American, stripped of his seven Tour titles because of blood doping, has been invited by fellow cancer survivor and former English soccer player Geoff Thomas to ride the route to raise money for a leukemia charity.
“I understand that he’s been approached by Geoff Thomas to take part in a charity event and I’m sure that Geoff means well,” UCI chief Brian Cookson told reporters at a sports industry meeting in London yesterday.
“Bringing Lance Armstrong to ride on some or all of the route one day before the race, I can’t think of better words than disrespectful and inappropriate to the Tour de France, the current riders, the UCI and anti-doping.
“The charity justification was used quite a lot throughout his career and that got us into all sorts of a mess which is well documented. It looks like Lance was persuaded into it and if he was it’s not a good judgement.”
However, Cookson said he was powerless to stop Armstrong going ahead with the ride.
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