Dublin – Pat McQuaid has failed to secure the nomination of his own national cycling organisation in his bid for a third term as president of the International Cycling Union.
Cycling Ireland chief executive Geoff Liffey says the governing body has voted 91-74 against endorsing McQuaid at an extraordinary general meeting in Dublin on Saturday.
McQuaid will still be able to stand for the presidency after the Swiss cycling federation last month approved his request to be endorsed. He is being opposed by Brian Cookson, who is British Cycling president.
McQuaid's future has been clouded since the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report last year which led to Lance Armstrong being banned for life from cycling and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. USADA said the UCI helped cover up some suspicious samples from the American. – Sapa-AP