McQuaid welcomes Armstrong confession

UCI president Pat McQuaid has welcomed Lance Armstrong’s confession of using performance-enhancing drugs – and, in particular, the American’s insistence that cycling’s world governing body were not complicit in keeping his doping hidden.

After years of denials, the 41-year-old American told Oprah Winfrey in a television interview that he doped during his run of seven successive Tour de France titles, from 1999 to 2005.