Under-pressure McQuaid steps down from Olympic panel

Pat McQuaid, the embattled president of the International Cycling Union, has stood down from the panel assessing host cities for the 2020 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has confirmed.

McQuaid's position as UCI president has been under scrutiny following the Lance Armstrong scandal, with an independent commission set up to establish the relationship between cycling's world governing body and the Texan, who has admitted using performance-enhancing drugs in all seven of his Tour de France wins, from 1999 to 2005.