Tygart reveals new evidence on Armstrong

Fresh evidence has emerged of how Lance Armstrong managed to avoid positive drugs tests that raises further questions about the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) involvement in the scandal.

The head of the US anti-doping agency (USADA) Travis Tygart has claimed the director of the drug-testing laboratory in Lausanne told him he provided the cyclist with the information to avoid positive tests for the blood-boosting agent EPO at the request of the UCI.

Concerns have previously been expressed about a ‘triangle’ — with the UCI accepting a $100,000 (€120,000) donation from Armstrong in 2002 and around that time the UCI gave the Lausanne laboratory free use of a blood analyser worth $60-70,000.