JOIN USThe head of cycling’s governing body has been replaced on a key International Olympic Committee panel as he deals with the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.
International Cycling Union President Pat McQuaid said on Wednesday he was too busy to attend all the meetings of the Olympic commission evaluating bids for the 2020 Summer Games.
“It’s quite simple,” McQuaid told The Associated Press. “I have too much going on and I can’t afford to be spending two weeks away from the office in March.”
McQuaid, an IOC member from Ireland, was appointed to the 10-person commission in September as the representative of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations.
He has been replaced by Patrick Baumann, a Swiss IOC member and secretary general of international basketball federation FIBA.