Former UCI president Pat McQuaid says the treatment of Lance Armstrong has been overly harsh.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, the Irishman, who headed the UCI between 2006 and 2013, described the “witch hunt after Armstrong” in the lead up to his eventual ban.
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