Media reports claim that Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life following an investigation by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), confessed to doping during his career in the pre-recorded interview, taped on Monday.
Lance Armstrong would be asked to testify to the commission investigating allegations made against the International Cycling Union (UCI) if reports about his doping confession are true, world cycling’s governing body said today.
The American – stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life – has finally admitted using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview with Oprah Winfrey to be aired on Thursday, USA Today reported.
“The UCI will not be making any further comments on matters concerning Lance Armstrong until it has had the opportunity to view his much publicised interview with Oprah Winfrey,” the body said in a statement today.
“The UCI notes the media speculation surrounding the interview and reports that he has finally come clean and admitted doping during his cycling career. “If these reports are true, we would strongly urge Lance Armstrong to testify to the independent commission established to investigate the allegations made against the UCI in the recent USADA reasoned decision.
Former International Court of Appeal judge Philip Otton, who chairs the independent commission, is set to hold a hearing on the matter in London in April and will submit its report to the UCI by June 1, 2013, or shortly afterwards.
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