• French candidate for world cycling’s top role wins by 37 votes to eight • Cookson: I depart with head held high. Someone had to lift sport out of gutterBrian Cookson’s reign as the UCI president came to a humiliating end as he garnered only eight of 45 possible votes in losing world cycling’s top job to the Frenchman David Lappartient. Instead, Cookson haemorrhaged support and suffered one of the widest election losses by a reigning head of any international sports federation. The result also means that Cookson, who took over as the head of international cycling in September 2013 after 16 years in charge of British Cycling, becomes the first UCI president to serve only one term. When Lappartient had announced his intention to run in June, he said Cookson was a weak president who lacked “ambition” and “vision”.

Source: The Guardian September 21, 2017 10:45 UTC