Ex world cycling chief denies Armstrong claim

Former world cycling chief Hein Verbruggen has dismissed Lance Armstrong’s suggestion that he helped to hush up a positive drug test for the American.

Armstrong claimed in the Daily Mail that the former president of the sport’s governing body, the UCI, was involved in a cover-up of a positive test for a corticosteroid found in a cream for saddle sores in 1999, the year he won his first of seven Tour de France titles. Armstrong has since admitted backdating a prescription to give himself an exemption.