Paul Kimmage believes a recent independent report into doping in cycling is a "damning indictment" of the previous leadership of world cycling's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
The Sunday Independent journalist was reacting to the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CRCI) report, which was publicised yesterday, on Off The Ball.
"It is a damning indictment of their stewardship of cycling and of the governing body in their periods there," he said of previous UCI Presidents Pat McQuaid and Hein Verbruggen who presided over the sport at the height of the Lance Armstrong era.
"If you listened to the [most recent] interview with Pat McQuaid, you would have said that the report completely exonerated him - or if you listen to Pat McQuaid's section of it because there was a very notable disconnect between what Gavin Jennings, the presenter, was saying to him was in the report, and how Pat McQuaid was interpreting it," he said.
"It certainly made me look up the definition of 'exonerates' because it didn't tally with my understanding of it at all."
Kimmage also poured over the key points and "little nuggets" within the report and how it correlates with the events that took place during the Armstrong era.
"It nails the leadership. There is no one who can pick up this report and read it and say that the UCI were not complicit. It's a document of record," said Kimmage, who also addressed one of the opinions sought in the report, which suggested that up to 90 per cent of cyclists could still be doping.
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