BroDeal said:
Evans and most of the BMC team.
I posted this in another thread, but I suspect the UCI has been warning riders or teams about dodgy passports just Hamilton like was warned. Perhaps it is even being done to ease the way for certain desirable results that would help expand the sport.
I think M. Rasmussen, during his post 2007 struggle to be allowed back in the pro peloton, mentioned that once.
I think, unfortunately I can't find the source or quote, he said that the biological passport allows the monitoring body a lot of leeway, because they have to build a case interpreting the passport and then try to 'positively' prove manipulation, as opposed to releasing the results of a test that just shows you are + i.e. "you have used banned product x." His rational was that riders can be (unfairly) targeted, whereas others could be left off the hook, dependent on the whims of the overseers.
Is there any "statistically significant evidence" that people who change teams they have been with for a while, suffer a 'setback' in their first year, because, I don't know, it affects doping logistics?
1) new team management; trust?; different methods?; different monitoring regime?;
2) new (training/living) area; new laws
3) new team mates; ???