World Anti-Doping Agency criticises UCI's failure to investigate Lance Armstrong drugs allegations Wada's chairman, John Fahey, said his organisation applauded the United States Anti-Doping Agency for its efforts in gathering evidence against Armstrong and his fellow team members after the alarm was raised by another rider, Floyd Landis, in 2010 and will not exercise its right of appeal against the USADA decision. Fahey was keen to stress that Wada did not support some of the misgivings the International Cycling Union expressed about the USADA evidence, which ran to 1,000 pages and involved detailed testimony from 11 former team-mates of Armstrong. USADA concluded that Armstrong was involved in a sophisticated doping conspiracy. Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after refusing to contest the USADA charges while there are still ongoing cases against the team manager Johan Bruyneel and team doctor Pedro Celaya. The UCI president, Pat McQuaid, announced last week it had launched its own inquiry but Fahey complained he had not been consulted. Nevertheless he said Wada would take part if the inquiry was properly sourced and truly independent. This is not a situation in which just because the athlete did not return a positive test there was nothing more the governing body of cycling could do. It has taken a major effort and undertaking from a national anti-doping organisation to gather the compelling evidence following allegations raised by Floyd Landis in 2010. It is important that there now be genuine independence and a complete examination of the scenario, with a panel that has full powers of inquiry and access to all required evidence and information. Only with the necessary independence and terms of reference will the inquiry be able to address properly the systemic culture of doping that was allowed to develop in cycling during this time.