Hein Verbruggen was a Dutch sports administrator who was president of the Union Cycliste Internationale from 1991 till 2005 and president of SportAccord from 2004 to 2013.
19 Facts About Hein Verbruggen
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Hein Verbruggen was an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee since 2008.
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Hein Verbruggen is highly suspected to have protected Lance Armstrong.
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In 1979, Hein Verbruggen became a member of the board of the Federation Internationale de Cyclisme Professionnel.
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Hein Verbruggen became vice-president in 1982, and president in 1984.
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From 1991 to 2005, Hein Verbruggen was president of the UCI.
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In 2005, Hein Verbruggen became Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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Later that year, Hein Verbruggen resigned as president of the UCI, and became vice-president.
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Hein Verbruggen then stopped being a member of the IOC, but was reinstated during the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Hein Verbruggen has been involved in several defamation suits against people who accused UCI of corruption in regard to doping.
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Voet had made various claims about UCI and Hein Verbruggen's alleged behavior related to an alleged issue with Lidocaine and Laurent Brochard at the 1997 UCI Road World Championships.
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On 26 May 2016, the judge ruled once more in favour of Hein Verbruggen by prohibiting Paul Kimmage to affirm that Hein Verbruggen knowingly tolerated doping or to make any allegations of the same kind.
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The Judge forbade Paul Kimmage to claim that Hein Verbruggen hid controls, is dishonest, did not behave responsibly, did not apply the same rules for all, did not chase Lance Armstrong after he had provided an antedated certificate.
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Hein Verbruggen stated that he was doing it for the whistleblowers who were defamed by the UCI.
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Hein Verbruggen denied any wrongdoing and a UCI press release of 28 July 2008 explained that contracts had been signed with Japanese cycling groups wanting to invest in the development of track cycling and that this matter was unrelated to the inclusion of keirin, together with three other track disciplines, in the Olympic Games.
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In May 2010, Floyd Landis accused Hein Verbruggen of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Lance Armstrong to cover-up a positive dope control in 2001.
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Hein Verbruggen denied the allegation, but confirmed that Armstrong representatives had approached the UCI with the intention of donating money.
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In July 2010, an email correspondence between Landis and Hein Verbruggen was leaked to The New York Daily News, in which Hein Verbruggen attacked Landis in the wake of accusations Landis made about the UCI and Lance Armstrong.
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In July 2013, it was revealed that from 2001 to 2004, Hein Verbruggen had some of his money managed by the owner of USA Cycling and part owner of the United States Postal Service professional cycling team, Thom Weisel.