The International Cycling Union’s Management Committee has taken note of the complaint against the UCI, against its President Mr. Hein Verbruggen and against the member of the Management Committee Mr. Pat McQuaid, which is lodged by Mrs Sylvia Schenk towards the International Olympic Committee’s Ethics Commission.

The UCI’s Management Committee expresses its full solidarity to the persons touched by Mrs. Schenk’s action, which attains to their respectability as well as to that of the whole Federations and its members.

The UCI’s Management Committee considers Mrs Schenks’ behaviour, herself member of the same Management Committee until next September, as totally unacceptable, and decides that all relations with her will be stopped with immediate effect.

The UCI Management Committee reminds that this action by Mrs. Schenk is evidently keeping in the frame of the manoeuvres aiming to disrupt the election of the new UCI President, and is in conflict with her agreement to the consensual agreement expressed by the UCI Management Committee in favour of Mr. Pat McQuaid two years ago in Hamilton.

The UCI Management Committee had to note with regret that after her forced resignation from her position as President of the German Cycling Federation (BDR), and because of the numerous controversies which have characterized her mandate, Mrs Schenk has launched herself into a campaign aiming to unsettle the internal balance of the UCI

Deprived of her Federation’s support, and consequently of all other ambition thereof, Mrs Schenk has been able to concentrate solely on her new objective, trying to do everything possible to reach her goal.

By confirming the total regularity of procedures followed in its meetings and the collegial structure of the decision taken concerning the election of the new UCI President, the UCI Management Committee, who has introduced a complaint against Mrs. Schenk toward the UCI Ethics Commission, rejects therefore completely and firmly all accusations that Mrs. Schenk has sent a number of times, also with the complacency of a number of press bodies, towards the persons and the organisation as mentioned.

Finally, the UCI Management Committee remains serenely awaiting the response from the IOC’s Ethics Commission.