Stuart O'Grady. Photo / AP
The Australian Olympic Committee has called on cycling great Stuart O'Grady to immediately resign from its athletes' commission, saying he doesn't deserve the role after admitting to doping for the 1998 Tour de France.
The AOC secretary-general Craig Phillips said yesterday he had contacted O'Grady by email asking for his
resignation.
"Members of our London Olympic Team who elected Stuart to the athletes' commission are entitled to be angry knowing they had supported an athlete who had cheated," AOC president John Coates said in a statement.
"Athletes' commission members are chosen for their qualities of integrity and leadership and by his admission Stuart does not deserve to be a member of that group."
O'Grady announced his retirement on Wednesday after riding a record-equalling 17th Tour amid speculation he would be named in a French parliamentary inquiry into the use of drugs in the sport.
