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The Lance Armstrong affair is over, it didn't have any affect on cycling, and besides it took pl♑ace over a decade ago, UCI president Pat McQuaid has said.

“We have moved on from that controversy. It was not at all a blow to cycling and I don’t see it has left any negative impact on the sport,” McQuaid said, according to the Daily Pioneer newspaper in  India, wherಞe he is visiting in connection with the Asian Cycling 💛Federation Congress.

“Sport moves on without caring anything about an individual who was caught taking dope. And I don’t think that issue would be a deterrent for young cyclists to come into cycling. They should view today’s icons. Nowadays also, we have many brilliant athletes - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins - who can be their role models.”

Things have improved since the Armstrong era, he claimed. “Look, first of all, doping is not confined to cyclin🎃g only. See, Armstrong issue is a thing of 10 to 15 years back. The products that were used 15 years ago were undet🦹ectable. It was a difficult times for all of us.

“Now, we have upgraded our process and we are advancing day by day in that point. UCI is the only sporting federati♓on in the world which has a fool-proof bio-passport programme. So, our doping controlling programme is currently equipped to control the menace.”