UCI’s request for Astana to lose their licence: what next for cycling?

How long will the review take? Will any ban withstand a legal challenge? And will Vincenzo Nibali get to defend his Tour de France title?

• UCI moves to revoke licence of Vincenzo Nibali’s team Astana

• Astana timeline: history of a troubled team

Astana’s future is in the hands of the UCI licence commission, a four-man panel headed by the former Swiss supreme court judge Pierre Zappelli. They will look at the findings of the audit commissioned into Astana in December and examine evidence from the Padua doping inquiry in which Astana team members are mentioned. There is no timeline available for the process but it’s reasonable to expect them to take at least a few days to convene and more to examine the evidence. If Astana have to attend a hearing they will need time to sort their lawyers and put together their case. All of which means this will be a long process.

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