Verbruggen rejects Armstrong 'cover-up' 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 last month 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 the American won his first of seven Tour de France titles.