Anti-doping Program
When the team entered the Professional Continental ranks they began in the Agency for Cycling Ethics program to eliminate doping. Participants are tested repeatedly to develop a bio-stable marker profile. Future tests check these markers have not moved. If they have, the rider is ill or has taken performance enhancing drugs. If any change has been noted, the rider cannot race until the markers have returned to normal. Riders are interviewed, and tested for illness or doping.
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