UCI President Brian Cookson says the UCI will "manage and run" the commission and there are details to be worked out.

An independent panel will examine allegations that cycling's governing body was complicit in Lance Armstrong's doping.

Spain's anti-doping a agency says prosecutors in the eastern province of Alicante are examining the Spanish citizens mentioned in a report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency wants Lance Armstrong to come forward with information detailing the alleged complicity of cycling's governing body in his doping.

The government had previously announced it would join a whistle-blower lawsuit brought by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis under the federal False Claims Act.