New UCI president Brian Cookson will aim to establish quickly whether his predecessors were embroiled in covering up the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Chris Froome’s success at this year’s Tour de France has officially been given the green light by drug testers.

Leading cyclists have requested the introduction of sterner penalties for doping following a meeting of the International Cycling Union’s athletes’ commission.

Lance Armstrong’s former team-mate Tyler Hamilton has responded to UCI president Pat McQuaid’s assertion that he and Floyd Landis were “scumbags” by saying that the Irishman has no place in cycling.

IRISH team manager Martin O’Loughlin will be hoping that his charges can claim two places in next year’s Olympic Games at the World B cycling championships in Aigle, Switzerland, on Sunday.