Jan 28 (Reuters) - Cycling's world governing body is disbanding the Independent Commission which investigated the Lance Armstrong doping scandal in favour of a "truth and reconciliation process", the UCI said on Monday. The UCI said the commission was being disbanded following talks with WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) president John Fahey.

Jan 26 (Reuters) - An attorney for Lance Armstrong said the disgraced cyclist will not meet the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's deadline for him to answer questions under oath, and suggested his client would rather participate in international efforts to "clear the air." In a letter to the USADA dated on Friday, attorney Timothy Herman said that while the athlete is willing to cooperate with the agency, its request to interview him in the next two weeks "cannot be accommodated." Herman blamed pre-existing obligations.

By Alan Baldwin LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Cycling's world body cast doubt on the role of its independent commission inquiry into the Lance Armstrong scandal on Friday by favouring a broader probe with anti-doping agency WADA into drugs use in the sport. International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid told reporters, after a procedural hearing of the independent commission was adjourned until next week, that a process with WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, now appeared to be the best way forward.

By Alan Baldwin LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Cycling's world governing body has yet to release any documents to an independent commission it set up last year to investigate allegations over the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, a hearing was told on Friday. "It amazes me that we've had no documents whatsoever," Britain's 11-times Paralympic champion Tanni Grey-Thompson, one of the three members on the commission, told Ian Mill, counsel for the International Cycling Union (UCI).