Sir Bradley Wiggins’ comments on Lance Armstrong ‘unbelievable,’ says UCI president

The British Tour de France winner said Armstrong was the ‘perfect’ winner

UCI president David Lappartient
Photo : Yuzuru SUNADA

(Image credit: Yuzuru SUNADA)

The president of the UCI has called Sir Bradley Wiggins’ views on Lance Armstrong “strange” and “unbelievable.”

In Wiggins’ new book Icons, the first British Tour de France winner said the American was “precisely the sort of winner” the race founder had imagined.

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