
Garmin - Slipstream Subscribe to New Anti - Doping Program
By REUTERS(Editing by Justin Palmer)Filed at 11:09 a.m. ET
The 29 riders from the Garmin-Slipstream team will be tested over 600 times next season after agreeing to a new internal anti-doping program, the U.S. outfit said on Monday.Garmin-Slipstream, managed by former professional rider Jonathan Vaughters, was founded in 2005 on a strong anti-doping stance and were using the services of the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE) until it closed earlier this year. "(The team) will participate in a new program run by the Anti-Doping Sciences Institute (ADSI) to further its anti-doping mission. The program will include profiles from testing conducted over the last year and will share data with UCI (International Cycling Union) and other international and national anti-doping agencies," said Garmin-Slipstream, previously know as Garmin-Chipotle."All 29 athletes on the team are voluntarily participating in the program, which will test them over 600 times in 2009."There will be an intense focus on EPO and related substances as well as continued focus on longitudinal profiling of blood and steroid levels.The program will include tests to detect the new generation of the banned blood-booster EPO, called CERA. Top rider Riccardo Ricco, Leonardo Piepoli of Italy, German Stefan Schumacher and Austrian Bernhard Kohl tested positive for CERA in retroactive tests from this year's Tour de France.
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