International Cycling Union hits back at claims it covered up Lance Armstrong's doping at US Postal Service team Tygart expressed hope the UCI would continue to investigate historical claims of a cover-up and failings regarding Armstrong. The UCI reminded Tygart that the independent commission was disbanded after Usada and the World Anti-doping Agency (Wada) withdrew co-operation over the subject of an amnesty for witnesses, which cycling's world governing body, initially at least, did not want to allow. "It's all very well Mr Tygart talking about co-operation, but let's not forget that the independent commission was only disbanded because of Usada's and Wada's point-blank refusal to co-operate with it," the UCI spokesperson added. Simply, the UCI was left with no choice but to close it down; it made no sense to go forward without the participation of these two bodies. One can only assume that their refusal to co-operate with the independent commission was due to their fear that their own shortcomings would be exposed. After all, Usada and Wada also tested Armstrong over many years and also failed to catch him. It was only with the benefit of the US federal investigation that Usada was finally able to gain evidence of Armstrong's doping. No attempt by Travis Tygart to rewrite history will change the fact that Usada failed to catch Lance Armstrong having tested him just 49 times during his career. The UCI by comparison tested Armstrong 189 times. As Mr Tygart himself admitted Thursday in other media reports, it was the UCI in its campaign against doping, not Wada or Usada, which caught Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton. And it was the UCI catching these two high-profile riders which ended up with them confessing and so enabled the investigation to move against Armstrong.