Federations urge McQuaid to seek court ruling on election

Embattled UCI president Pat McQuaid has been challenged to prove his commitment to good governance by taking a dispute over theforthcoming election to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

USA Cycling, with the backing of several other national federations — Russia, Canada, Finland and Algeria — had written to the Irishman, who heads the UCI, asking for the CAS to rule on the case and avoid any future legal battles.

McQuaid is being challenged by British Cycling’s chairman Brian Cookson and the dispute centres on whether McQuaid should be allowed to stand for re-election despite notbeing nominated by his homefederation Ireland nor Switzerland where he lives. McQuaid has instead been nominated by Thailand andMorocco and will ask the UCI Congress in Florence on September 27 to ratify a rule change allowing this.