Pat McQuaid, Giro d'Italia press conference, May 25 2010  Pat
McQuaid, Giro d'Italia press conference, May 25 2010  Pat
McQuaid, the president of the UCI, has confirmed that Lance
Armstrong made a donation of $100,000 which the governing body
used to purchase a Sysmex machine, a piece of equipment used to
analyse blood samples.  This contradicts the declaration made by
Lance Armstrong in a deposition taken as part of the case
brought by Armstrong against SCA Promotions in 2005.  Then,
Armstrong said he had made a payment of around $25,000 to the
UCI to help fund the fight against doping.  Speaking to
journalists at the Giro d'Italia, McQuaid said: "We are looking
into it to be fully transparent, by the end of it we will have
the full facts available. That will include the invoice of the
Sysmex machine, when it was bought.  "My understanding, without
having examined the full detail, is that during 2002 Lance
Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel visited the UCI headquarters in
Aigle [Switzerland]. It had just opened in