Painful though it may be, a catharsis could usher in a new era of transparency and accountability, directed by a global governing body. Some of cycling’s biggest and longest-suspected names could finally walk out of the shadows and confess. The investigatory body is the CIRC, or Cycling Independent Reform Commission, a three-man group that has the potential to produce one of the most seismic sporting stories of 2015 – or one of its most expensive flops. When Lance Armstrong was banned for life in August 2012 for doping to win his seven Tours de France between 19, most casual observers would have assumed cycling’s well-documented doping problems were, if not solved, then at least cleared up somewhat. But that sordid story did not start with Armstrong nor did it end with him.Ī change in leadership of the world governing body, the International Cycling Union (UCI) in autumn 2013 brought a new president, Brian Cookson, and an apparently fresh desire to investigate those figures – Armstrong and others – who contributed to cycling’s dark and hidden past.
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