Lance Armstrong has been encouraged to tell all if he wants any leniency on his lifetime ban. Source: News Limited
DRUG cheat Lance Armstrong may have his lifetime cycling ban overturned if he co-operates with an independent investigation into the sport's sordid past.
Brian Cookson, president of the UCI, yesterday confirmed he would shortly announce "terms and conditions" that could see riders like Armstrong have their life ban from the sport lifted in return for helpoing investigators.
"I think there will be the possibility of a reduction but the commission will have to make an assessment of that on a case-by-case basis," Cookson said.
"It all depends on what information Lance has and what he's able to reveal. That's not going to be in my hands, he's been sanctioned by USADA and they would have to agree to any reduction in his sanction based on the validity and strength of the information he provided.
"If they're happy, if WADA are happy, then I'll be happy."
Cookson declined to comment on individual cases, but when asked about high-profile Australian Stuart O'Grady who retired last year and confessed to using EPO before the 1998 Tour de France but is adamant he never did so again, urged everyone to tell the truth.
"I would encourage everyone to tell all of the truth, if you tell the partial truth - and I'm not saying that anyone is doing - the thing about the truth is that it comes out in the end," Cookson said.
"It might be six months, 10 years, a generation, but it comes out in the end, so it's better and less painful for everyone I believe if people tell the truth and all of the truth and I would encourage everybody to do that."
He the commission's investigation into the sport's dark past could see more bloodletting by way of revealing more riders who doped in the past.
"It's a little bit too early to say, I want the commissioners to feel that they own the process and they don't have an interference from me or anyone at the UCI," he said.
"I don't rule out anything really, there may well be more revelations, but it will hold its hearings in private, it will gather evidence in private, but it will publish a report at the end of that.
"Ultimately I'm sure we'll learn some interesting things from the past."
Cookson said the commission would investigate the "problems and reputational damage" that doping had done to the sport.
"If we can't have a sport in which a family can bring their children, and those kids can go all the way to the top of their sport without having to cheat, without having to lie about their cheating, without having to take substances that might damage their long-term health, and without having to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulder ...
"If we can't do that, then we failed as administrators of our sport.
"Don't tell me that other sports have got problems, that's not my job, I care about our sport and if sport doesn't have integrity it's a circus and we have to give our sport back its integrity."
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