Blood doping expert Michael Ashenden recognizes the anti doping work of pro cycling team CSC, but does not belive, that it can be used as an indication of whether or not the team is using doping.
Asked about the credibility of Team CSC and doping expert Rasmus Damsgaard’s anti doping system in connection with the fact that the Danish pro cycling team is one of the leading teams in the world, Michael Ashenden said:
”I have a lot of faith in Rasmus, and I am familiar with his system. I think it is an improvement, but I wouldn’t categorize it as being perfect or proof, than none of the riders are doped.”
Furthermore the project coordinator of Science and Industry Against Blood Doping stated:
”It is extremely difficult to compete against teams, that are doping, if your team is not.”
2 responses so far ↓
1 Robin Parisotto // Oct 30, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Team CSC has shown great initiative but as Mike says it is not perfect. Testing, result interpretation and result management need to be completely independent of any team to have credibility. How should the scrutineers of the scrutinied be scrutinised?
2 Rasmus Damsgaard // Nov 1, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Team CSC has such a program - completely independent of the team. All results goes to UCI and WADA and is obtained in a ISO 9002 certified fashion way by a indenpenden anti-doping agency - apart form blood screening that still has no accreditation procedure. However, all blood screening samples are also send to WADA and UCI.
I agree that controlling the controllers is a problem but isn’t always?
I suggest that an international panel of experts including physiologists, medical doctors, lywers and biochemists (lab. people) should be consulted on a regularly basis to set ideal standards for evaluating results and the following follow-up procedure.
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