A move to allow International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid to stand for re-election despite not being nominated by his own country has been condemned as “an embarrassment” by his rival.

Pressure is mounting on the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) leadership with the governing body plunged into fresh controversy for disbanding its own inquiry into the Lance Armstrong drugs scandal.

A pressure group formed to try to force change on world cycling's governing body, the UCI, will meet for the first time in London this weekend.