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Lance Armstrong claims former International Cycling Union president Hein Verbruggen instigated a cover-up of his doping at the 1999 Tour de France. Armstrong told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper in an interview published Monday that Verbruggen insisted ''we've got to come up with something'' to explain his positive tests for a banned corticosteroid. Cycling's governing body, the UCI, appeared to ignore its own anti-doping rules when it accepted Armstrong's backdated prescription for a cream to treat saddle sores. this is the knockout punch for our sport ... so we've got to come up with something.' So we backdated the prescription.'' Though Armstrong has acknowledged the prescription excuse in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey, he had not previously linked Verbruggen or other UCI officials to a cover-up.
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