article_snippet: the UCI Astana have denied reports the UCI have been stripped of the UCI WorldTour licence by the Independent Licence Commission.
article_snippet: Last month the UCI the UCI requested that Astana's licence be revoked by the Independent Licence Commission following an independent audit into the team of 2014 Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali, which came after a number of anti-doping infringements by Astana and their feeder team.
article_snippet: On Monday, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that Astana would lose their WorldTour licence and would only be allowed to apply for a Continental licence, the third tier of professional cycling, saying the decision had been made on March 20.
article_snippet: the UCI Astana have denied reports the UCI have been stripped of the UCI WorldTour licence .
article_snippet: When Astana were awarded their 2015 licence in December, conditions were attached after five riders linked to the UCI failed doping tests in 2014, including brothers Maxim and Valentin Iglinskiy, trainee Ilya Davidenok and two members of Astana's continental development team - Artur Fedosseyev and Victor Okishev.
article_snippet: On Monday, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that Astana would lose their WorldTour licence .
article_snippet: Astana was made to submit to an audit from the Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne as a condition of an audit from the Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne licence.
article_snippet: At the conclusion of an audit from the Institute of Sport Sciences of the University of Lausanne, the Institute of Sport Sciences asked for its licence to be revoked, saying the reality of the UCI's policies and structures differed markedly from what Astana told the licence commission during a review December.
article_snippet: Astana Astana previously said Astana would appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if Astana licence was revoked.
highlights_snippet: the UCI have denied reports the UCI have lost WorldTour licence .
  
highlights_snippet: Last month the the UCI requested that Astana's licence be revoked .
  
highlights_snippet: Request came after a number of anti-doping infringements by Astana .
  