The bio-passport is not a black box. *Everything* about the tests known. Sky needs someone sufficiently trained to assess the test results knowing the details of the test itself and translate all that for management.
Whatever test was run made Sky do a triple-take at the score. Was it because it was a suspicious-near-positive? Positive, but the UCI not opening a case? Nobody is willing to share that information.
What comes up time and time again is the lack of transparency about rider's tests whether it is the UCI, the team, the owner of the team, the NGB, the NADA etc.
I do not understand why Sky just doesn't tell us what happened - details and specifics, for e.g. "An out of competition test on Henao's haematocrit level was conducted on such and such a day by (whoever) and the results were .... and we are investigating this matter to determine the facts and if he is in any violation of WADA rules. In the meantime Henao will not be competing for Sky and we will advise you about the details of our investigation when it is completed" - or something like this!
How difficult is that?
Yet time and time again riders, teams, owners, NGBs, NADAs and the UCI prevaricate and pu$$y foot around damaging the reputation of cycling because it leaves the rest of us in the dark resulting in massive speculation keeping the Clinic roiling with conjecture, hypothesis, supposition, surmise and theory.
(Of course that is why we love the Clinic - it allows us to procrastinate from life's more important business, with endless speculation, LOL)
Once and for all, the UCI needs to make it a rule that all Pro Teams weekly provide publicly the in and out of competition test results (Haematocrit levels, haemoglobin levels, urine results etc.), TUE applications etc. of all its riders on the UCI website.
As an example, as much as I think USADA has done a good job on the LA conspiracy case, why can they not give us an update as to the status of the Bruyneel et al hearing? Why can we not get access to the submissions made by either side? Why do we have to speculate as to the issues? Why is there no status update on the USADA website? And if they don't provide us with the details of the arbitrators ruling and reasons, then they will lose some of the ground they gained by publishing the LA Reasoned Decision.
The secrecy of the agencies responsible for cycling and doping are damaging their credibility and as a result damaging cycling and causing the rest of us to have no faith in the process.
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