Former UCI president Hein Verbruggen has accused WADA of carrying out a “hate campaign” against him and the UCI, and he has lodged a complaint with the IOC Ethics Committee about former WADA chairman Dick Pound, WADA director general David Howman, USADA chief executive Travis Tygart and lawyer Bill Bock.
"I have lodged a complaint against Pound, Howman, Tygart and Bock with the Ethics Commission of the IOC, a body that I trust to remain fully objective," Verbruggen said in a statement, according to insidethegames.biz.
"It was a serious omission in the past not to create some form of supervisory authority over WADA, such as an Ethics Commission to which an aggrieved party could appeal.”
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Verbruggen was president of the UCI between 1991 and 2005. He had threatened to sue the UCI in the wake of the publication of its Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report in 2015, before reaching a settlement with current president Brian Cookson in December. Under the terms of the settlement, Verbruggen remains honorary president of the UCI.
While the CIRC report published no evidence to prove that Verbruggen had covered up a positive test by Lance Armstrong at the 2001 Tour de Suisse, it highlighted instances where Armstrong had benefited from “preferential status afforded by UCI leadership.”
The CIRC report also criticised Verbruggen for his long-standing feud with Pound during his tenure as WADA chairman.
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