Pat McQuaid breezes into the hotel foyer, unruffled by the mayhem of Christmas shopping.

UCI president Pat McQuaid has dismissed Greg LeMond’s challenge to his authority as “populist” and destined to fail.

Irish author and campaigning sportswriter Paul Kimmage has hinted that disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong may come clean about his drug-fuelled rise to the top of the sport.

The embattled International Cycling Union were today meeting in an effort to draw a line under the Lance Armstrong affair and amid calls for a change of the organisation's leadership.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has called for the resignation of Pat McQuaid, the president of cycling’s world governing body the UCI.

Stephen Roche has cautioned against finding people “guilty through association” in the wake of the United States Anti-doping Agency’s scathing reporting into Lance Armstrong.

The International Cycling Union’s honorary president Hein Verbruggen has dismissed an article in which he appears to defend Lance Armstrong as “misleading”.

Greg LeMond knows Lance Armstrong more than most and better than most.

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond believes Lance Armstrong will never admit to having taken performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career despite the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report which detailed the Texan’s role in the most successful and sophisticated doping programme in sports history.

Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond believes the impending release of documents relating to Lance Armstrong’s lifetime ban from cycling is “the best thing” to happen to the sport.

There’s a great scene in Amadeus where Mozart is staring at a couple of extravagant, expensive wigs, unable to decide which to wear out and about in Vienna that evening.

TOUR DE FRANCE leader Andy Schleck believes he fared better in the latest battle with nearest rival Alberto Contador yesterday as the race entered the Pyrenees.

PLEASE mind your toes, reader; there’s quite a big name about to be dropped in a second or two.

If there was any doubt cycling could not be further shamed by Floyd Landis’s doping case it was wiped away when Greg LeMond claimed he had been threatened with revelations of sexual abuse by a representative of the 2006 Tour de France winner.

JAN ULLRICH believes six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's decision to quit after this year's race in July has set up a classic confrontation.