Cycling Begins Big Clean Up With Doping Passport

But the Aderlass scandal suggests athletes have found ways to beat it. 2 Roger Federer has called for the introduction of biological passports in tennis similar to those used in cycling to detect possible doping.

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The report cites estimates that the percentage of todays peloton who may be doping could be 20 or 90.

Cycling begins big clean up with doping passport. British Cycling can confirm that it has been asked by the UCI to begin proceedings against Jonathan Tiernan-Locke based on an analysis of his biological passport. In October the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA and Tour de France organisers ASO agreed on the application of the passport and set an introduction date of January 1 with all cyclists. SO the clean-up operation to save a sport brought to its knees by its dirty past begins.

Douwe de Boer a doping expert who checks the biological passports for various professional cycling teams says hes not surprised to hear. Even the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong said it worked and would have prevented him. Cycling would either have to clean up its act.

Doping is out of control. Why waste upwards of 50m a year on fighting it when we could start from the bottom up. The new report from world cyclings governing body has confirmed the obvious.

UCI WADA and ASO agree after two day meeting in Paris. The combination of the biological passport on top of an endless stream of doping scandals from 1998 through 2007 brought the sport to a tipping point. Push for purity in cycling rebirth after Lance Armstrong doping controversy.

More important is to recognize that oxygen-vector doping like EPO was devastatingly effective and that the so-called EPO generation of pro cycling was a perfect confluencean accidental. As his team prepares for 2009 before 2008 has even finished Columbia chief Bob Stapleton gives Procyclings Daniel Friebe the lowdown on the teams new anti-doping programme. As for cycling its anti-doping programme put 20624 samples under the microscope 19318 of which were urine and 1306 of which were blood.

Contadors haemoglobin levels were also abnormal compared with his biological passport history leading the UCI Wada and Ashenden to suggest that they were consistent with blood doping. But Cavendish denies this means cyclings bad old days are back. Cycling begins big clean up with doping passport.

A report on television station France 2 has demonstrated how the UCI Biological Passport can be circumvented by the use of micro-doses of EPO Human Growth Hormone blood transfusions and. When the biological passport was introduced in 2009 it was seen by some as the saviour of clean sport. ROTTERDAM Reuters - World number two Roger Federer has called for the introduction of biological passports in tennis similar to those used in cycling to detect possible doping.

Recent months have witnessed a fresh round of negative headlines for the sport as a number of big names have been implicated in doping cases. Cycling is perhaps the sport with the most anti-doping measures on the planet. A British Cycling spokesman said.

Most everyone in pro cycling agrees that the peloton of today is. Cyclings rulers in dark about extent of doping as clean bill of health proves elusive. The affair began when a large haul of doping products was found in a car of the Festina cycling team just before the start of the race which led to a large-scale police investigation against the Festina Team this was followed by the re-opening of a separate police investigation case into the TVM team and a subsequent searching of many teams during the race for possession of illicit doping substances.

It signals yet another step in the Americans vision for the future of this outfit. I think cycling is being victimised because it wants to be a clean sport the 25-year-old Tour de France sensation said. The Athlete Biological Passport is more than 10 years old and credited for cleaning up cycling.

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