http://spn.dk/cykling/article1795749.ece
Bo Belhage (the former chief of the Bispebjerg anti-doping program that was run for Team Saxo Bank and Team Astana) has called for an end to the internal doping programs on the Cycling teams in an evaluation report for the UCI, referring to them as ultimately having been "a bad idea".
Bo Belhage also explains that he had several reasons why he terminated the Bispebjerg anti-doping program, among which the article brings up three:
One reason was that the program could not get insight into the anti-doping tests of Lance Armstrong.
Another reason was that he would not accept that Franck Schleck was not fired from Team Saxo Bank, when it was proven that he had been in transactions with Fuentes.
There also seems to have developed a significant problem with communication internally in the anti-doping program. In the last year, Damsgaard would sometimes act on his own, and Bispebjerg would then subsequently read about such actions through the media. For instance, Belhage was not made aware that the anti-doping program had started testing for CERA before he read about it in the newspapers (he repeats the story about the italian newspapers claiming that 4 Saxobank riders were suspected for CERA during last years Giro and Damsgaard's rather curious response to the situation). He says that the increasing lack of transparency was for him the biggest problem.
Bo Belhage (the former chief of the Bispebjerg anti-doping program that was run for Team Saxo Bank and Team Astana) has called for an end to the internal doping programs on the Cycling teams in an evaluation report for the UCI, referring to them as ultimately having been "a bad idea".
Bo Belhage also explains that he had several reasons why he terminated the Bispebjerg anti-doping program, among which the article brings up three:
One reason was that the program could not get insight into the anti-doping tests of Lance Armstrong.
Another reason was that he would not accept that Franck Schleck was not fired from Team Saxo Bank, when it was proven that he had been in transactions with Fuentes.
There also seems to have developed a significant problem with communication internally in the anti-doping program. In the last year, Damsgaard would sometimes act on his own, and Bispebjerg would then subsequently read about such actions through the media. For instance, Belhage was not made aware that the anti-doping program had started testing for CERA before he read about it in the newspapers (he repeats the story about the italian newspapers claiming that 4 Saxobank riders were suspected for CERA during last years Giro and Damsgaard's rather curious response to the situation). He says that the increasing lack of transparency was for him the biggest problem.