Lappartient: UCI is not naive when it comes to doping

BERLIN GERMANY MARCH 01 David Lappartient president UCI looks on during day 5 of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships Berlin at Velodrom on March 01 2020 in Berlin Germany Photo by Maja HitijGetty Images
UCI president David Lappartient (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

UCI president David Lappartient acknowledged that the recent paucity of positive doping tests is not necessarily cause for celebration, as the sport’s governing body outlined its new approach to combatting cheating. 

At the start of last year the UCI handed the task of policing the sport from the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation, which it set up itself in 2008, over to the International Testing Agency (ITA), an organisation that already performs a similar function for a host of international sporting federations. 

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