Cycling's governing body (UCI) admitted on Friday to drawing up a list in which it had estimated the 'doping risk' of each rider at last year's Tour de France but regretted the document had been leaked and thus made public.
French sports daily L'Equipe unveiled the doping suspicion index, in which riders are given a rating of suspicion scaling from 0: Not suspicious - to 10: Highly suspicious.
The UCI said the list is a working document helping to steer testing, not a list of riders who have done any wrongdoing.
"The document ... was meant for the UCI and independent observers of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). We will investigate to see how such a document has leaked," a UCI spokesman said on Friday.
The average index of the 198 riders from the 2010 Tour de France is 2.434.
The index is a summary from the riders biological passport's data and a blood test carried out on July 1, two days before the start of the Tour.
UCI president Pat McQuaid declined to further comment.
Riders reacted angrily.
Before the start of the seventh stage of the 2011 Giro d'Italia former Giro leader David Millar of Team Garmin-Cervelo commented "heads should roll" at the UCI for allowing the leak.
"It's shocking. I understand that that list should exist, that's what targeted testing is about," the Briton said.
"This list should never have been released. The UCI, some of their people should be fired for this. A major investigation should go on into what exactly they are doing with this model."
Other team officials were also angered.
"It's an abuse of trust and it seems that anybody can filter what they like and the price gets paid by the riders, not by the guy who does the leak," Garmin sports director Bingen Fernandez told reporters.
"If it's confidential, it has to stay confidential. If somebody in a bank revealed the equivalent sort of details about bank accounts, they'd be sacked."
Millar, who was suspended for two years in 2004 after admitting he took a banned performance-enhancing substance, said he had a rating of 4 out of 10.
"I understand I'm number four because of my misdemeanours in the past," he said.
"But this (list) just does not add up."
Briton Mark Cavendish reacted angrily on his Twitter feed.
"So there's a leaked 1-10 'suspicion' scale for all 2010 Tour De France riders. So now EVERYONE'S suspicious, but just HOW suspicious?!" he wrote.
Australian Robbie McEwen added on Twitter: "I'm all for catching cheats but draw the line at this sort of thing which could be based on 1 single wayward statistic. And who leaked it??"
Three-times Tour winner Alberto Contador, who is waiting for the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to rule on his positive test for the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol, will not make any comment, his spokesman said.
"It is greatly to the UCI's credit that they give themselves the means to fight against doping," Cofidis manager Eric Boyer commented.
Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme told reporters: "It's is an additional tool in the fight against doping. It is because cycling is a forerunner in the fight against doping that such a list exists.
"I would not like the word 'suspicion' to be associated with the sport just because, precisely, it's been fighting against doping."
the 'doping risk' of each rider at last year's Tour de France
Alberto Contador DOPING CASE MAKING FINAL DEFENSE
Saxo Bank, SunGard filed his final plea to overturn the ban on appearing one year to Alberto Contador, clenbuterol doping-related cases that experienced when competing in the event TDF 2010 when still defend Astana.
Results showed a positive doping test clenbuterol on the part of Contador, but the Spanish rider is doing a defense that that has occurred because of contaminated meat., "No fault or negligence" on his side.
Contador could miss the third title of the Tour de France and he really missed the race this year if a one-year suspension upheld then Contador still threatened not to appear. Standard doping penalty is a two-year ban, but the Spanish cycling federation chose to give one-year sentence.
"With a final defense document, we expect a change in the decision," said Contador Spain Spanish national radio on Monday night. "The rule that says athletes must demonstrate responsibility and negligence, and sanctions will be applied."
Clenbuterol was found in samples taken on July 21, 2010.
Traces of drugs were found in tests performed during the next three days, but the disciplinary committee dismissed the notion that Spain and they besikukuh these substances will be lost more than 3 days.
Contador defense document section, one of which is to take the case of French tennis player Richard Gasquet, who can avoid sanctions ban after proving he inadvertently swallowed the cocaine after kissing a woman at a nightclub.
All depends on the final decision is expected this weekend, but the final decision can be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by Contador, of the UCI or WADA.
"An athlete tested positive for clenbuterol in Mexico, where the clenbuterol used in cattle, but the meat contained in the European Union through a more complex control and illegal substances used to fatten livestock. Substance is not at all I have ever used and we can expect that there is due to contaminated meat, "said Contador.
Clenbuterol has been banned since 1996 and appears only once in 83 203 samples of animals tested by the European Union countries in 2008 and 2009, with zero positive cases in Spain of 19 431 samples analyzed.
Contador and SaxoBank-SunGard also asked the Spanish Cycling disciplinary committee to consider "the principle of equality" when taking samples of athletes.
Contador said he received messages of support from Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, who also struggled ever experienced a similar doping case in Italy.
"At first it was a nightmare, but now I can only feel disappointed," said Contador. "But I still have hope."
Floyd Landis FINALLY BACK FROM professional cycling
Floyd Landis, the driver who is more known for his doping case, ultimately decided to retire from professional racing. Landis said the battle to improve the image of himself in a professional bike race is "not his fight".
Landis told ESPN on Monday night that he had
spend approximately five years to improve the image of himself, until he felt more harm than the positive results of the effort.
Floyd Landis became the champion of the Tour de France in 2006, but then the prestigious title on the pro bike racing in the off, because he tested positive for synthetic testosterone doping.
Landis later admitted using illicit drugs has increased the performance, the case is not over just like that. Landis linking these cases that hit him with former teammate at U.S. Postal, Lance Armstrong.
Landis continues to fight the doping case, despite appearing to get a ban from the UCI pro dibalap bike, he still insists that the co-rekanya at U.S. Postal, including Lance Armstrong has also been using drugs for doping.
Case Progress Lance vs Landis continue to roll, until now Lance still continue to check the mentioned case.
Lance Armstrong, competing in the Tour Down Under 2011 in Australia, still denied everything that was said Landis. He also declined to comment on Landis retired from pro bike racing and more focus on the race stage 1 TDU 2011.
Landis also said on ESPN that "I do not want the results to be bitter," adds Landis and concludes "I believe this exercise can not be repaired, but it's not my job, and it was not against me."
Alberto Contador Should Get Maximum Ban if He Doped
Pro road cyclist Alberto Contador and track athletes involved in Operation Galgo should receive maximum bans if they are found guilty of doping, Spanish Olympic Committee president Alejandro Blanco said Thursday.
Contador is facing a two-year ban and being stripped of his third Tour de France title after failing a doping test during this year's Tour de France. Fourteen people are implicated in Galgo, including world steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez.
"In the case of Contador and any other athletes - maximum sanction when we know" if they are guilty, Blanco said in an interview and added "When it's proven an athlete has doped, there is no debate - authorities need to act."
While all results are usually annulled and prize money can be paid back with a doping sanction, Blanco was also open to the suggestion that Spanish athletes pay back grants earned from the state to assist in training.
"If they are shown to be guilty then there's no debate, they have to return everything," Blanco said from COE's Madrid headquarters. "Take away the grant and, even, try to make them pay back the money."
Despite backing Contador after news of his failed test, Blanco dismissed any notion the Spanish cyclist would get preferential treatment after the cycling federation's president also came out in support. Contador tested positive for clenbuterol, which he has blamed on contaminated meat.
"Until it is proven that an athlete has doped, you can't criticize the athlete," Blanco said. "There is not a single doubt over the ability of our disciplinary committees in any Spanish federation. They respect the rules in that sense, so people can rest assured."
Blanco was concerned over the fallout of Galgo, a Spanish Civil Guard investigation, which has divided Spanish track and field and accused Dominguez of being a supplier of performance-enhancing drugs. But he didn't expect recent scandals to affect the country's sports image as it considers bids to host the 2020 or 2024 Games.
Madrid lost to London for 2012 and Rio de Janeiro for 2016. Barcelona and Zaragoza are considering bids for the 2022 Winter Games.
Blanco insisted Spain was at the forefront of the battle on doping.
"Nobody fights against doping more than Spain does," he said.
Contador cocaine is the KEY CASE
Lawyer Alberto Contador has a new weapon to defend his client. Contador caught doping problem Clenbuterol in TDF 2010, Contador was threatened with losing his title.
In addition to examples of contaminated meat Clenbuterol, Lawyer ElPistolero also use Cocaine Case that struck some of the athletes.
Case International tennis player Richard Gasquet, is an example of a successful case of cocaine doping in the WADA appeal.
Lawyer Alberto Contador Andy Ramos said the decision in that case could come "any day". Discipline committee Spain's cycling federation will decide whether the benefits of 2-year sanctions ban appears to Contador.
Gasquet is a French tennis player is one athlete who caught kokoain problem, it turns out he got banned substance by accident when kissing a woman at a nightclub.
"Experts from our side has tried to examine it, can not find anything except suspicion of contaminated meat," Ramos said in a telephone interview.
Contador Lawyers also use Clenbuterol case Dimitrij Ovtcharov, who was released from the doping by the German table tennis federation in October. The Ukrainian-born successful Ovtcharov free after successfully proving that the consumption of contaminated meat Clenbuterol.
Ovtcharov indicated as 75 picograms per milliliter of blood samples, while Contador 50 picograms per milliliter.
RadioShack rider Li Fuyu Fails Doping Test
Blood Sample - Foto Routers
Fuyu Li is currently 31 years old, formerly Trek Marcopolo Asia. Pro Tour season in 2010 he joined RadioShack Pro Tour team, in which there are big names such as Pro Rider: Lance Armstrong, Andreas Kloden, Chris Horner, Levi Leiphiemer and many more big names.
Li FuYu Foto pezcyclingnews.com
Li has a right as a professional rider to ask the UCI B blood sample analysis, but the UCI will confirm if Li is proven guilty then suspend (ban) applies to China Bicycle Federation.
Li FuYu - Foto Yuzuru Sunada
Chinese Cycling Association (CCA) has been found out via the internet, but have not received official notification from the UCI.
"I read the news via the internet this morning, but getting information on the International Cycling Union (UCI)," a statement by the senior official Xinhua CCA today.
Fuyu Li is one of the best drivers of China and even Asia, he never won an individual time trial Chinese, Tour of Thailand in 2006 and is a member of the Chinese national cross-country mountain bike champion in 2003.
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