05 May,2011 08:00 AM IST | | AFP
World cycling chief Pat McQuaid has taken legal action against disgraced former Tour de France winner Floyd Landis for libel, the governing body said yesterday.
Floyd Landis
McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), and former president Hein Verbruggen, "have lodged a case in the Swiss courts against Mr Floyd Landis regarding repeated, serious attacks against their characters".
"The UCI is seeking to defend the integrity of the cycling movement as a whole against the accusations of a rider who, by breaching the Anti-doping Rules, caused cycling serious harm," the UCI said in a statement.
Landis announced his retirement from cycling in January, having been unable to find a team since being stripped of the 2006 Tour de France crown after a positive test for testosterone.
