FOSTER: The next investigation into cycling looks set to target the governing body of the sport. Where will it all end - Alex.</s>ALEX THOMAS, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, well this comes just four days after the UCI, cycling's world governing body confirmed the United States anti-doping agency's punishment of Lance Armstrong for doping, although he denies it. A lifetime cycling ban, stripping of his Tour de France titles and now today saying they want their prize money back and all other cyclists that were implicated by the Lance Armstrong affair, they're going to award no winners at all for the years that Armstrong won the Tour de France, 1999 to 2005. Remember that pretty mosaic you had of all the winners, that will literally be just blank spaces for those seven years then. The most interesting thing, though, is the UCI themselves saying they're going to set up an external, independent commission to look at the way the governing body has run all this. Under huge pressure for Pat McQuaid to resign. This is what he said, "we've listened to the world's reaction to the Lance Armstrong affair and have taken those opinions - sorry, those additional decisive steps in response to the grave concerns raised." Admitting that after Monday they sat back, read all the papers, listen to the radio, watched the tele, and realized they weren't doing enough...</s>FOSTER: They were too slow, is that the point?</s>THOMAS: People just said they - why they left it up to USADA seven years after the events to investigate and expose Armstrong, shouldn't they have done more to do it? Surely they're complicit somehow, which they're adamant they're not. And that's why they set up this independent commission to try and investigate. We should report back by June next year just before the 100th Tour de France which they don't want to be overshadowed.</s>FOSTER: Alex, thank you very much indeed. You are watching Connect the World live from London. Coming up, a record number of people are out of work in Spain. Why it's women who are bearing the brunt. Plus, Bond is back, a look at 007's classic past.
UCI Calls For Investigation Of Itself After Armstrong Scandal