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The UCI announced today that its Executive Board has unanimously decided to decline a requ🧜est by USA Cycling🅰 and five other federations to allow the Court💝 of Arbitration fo🧸r Sport to rule on which federation must submit the nomination of an individual for its presidential election.

"The UCI Executive Board, having considered and recognised the UCI Constitution and the Presidential nominations properly submitted under it, has ruled unanimously that it was for the Congress, as the highest authority of the UCI – rather than CAS – to consider all aspects r𒁏elated to the elections," the press release stated.

The nomination of current UCI president Pat McQuaid by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Morocco and Thailand came as a result of honorary memberships in those federations, and it has come under question as to whether those nods are legal under the specific language of Article 51.1 of the UCI Constitution, which specifi🅰es only that the nomination must come from "the federation of the candidate".

🍷Earlier this week, USA Cycling, the Russian Cycling Federation, the Finnish ༒Cycling Union, and the federations of Algeria, Canada and later Luxembourg supported the CAS appeal.

USA Cycling CEO Steve Johnson, who is also one of nine voting delegates from the Americas in the presidential election, said the language of artic🍃le 51.1 has been consistently interpreted to refer to the home federation of the candidate, which in McQuaid's case could be Ireland, his native country, or Switzerland, the country in wh♒ich he resides, but that aඣn impartial ruling on the matter was necessary to ensure a "fair, open and legitimate election".

However, the cycling federations of Ireland and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Switzerland rescinded their nominations. There has been a groundswell of opposition to McQuaid continuing on as UCI president after the USADA investigation into doping at the US Postal Service team revealed an unchecked doping culture in the sport under McQuaid's predecessor and🦄 mentor, Hein Verbruggen.

The Irishman is facing British Cycling's Brian Cookson in the election on September 27, and according to the UCI pr𓃲ess release, McQuaidꦦ recused himself from the discussions and decision on the CAS arbitration.