Today, the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the independent bodymandated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to define and implement the fight againstdoping in cycling, published the number of anti-doping controls carried out on the 2015 Tour deFrance.
Dr Francesca Rossi, Director of the CADF declared: "A total of 656 controls were carried out duringthe 2015 Tour de France. In addition, we strengthened our strategy of targeted controls thanks to theuse of information provided by numerous sources and to the support of an intelligence coordinator.Once again, the collaboration with the French Anti-Doping Agency (Agence Française de Lutte contrele Dopage - AFLD) was excellent and the targeted control strategy was discussed daily taking intoaccount the performance of riders and other data."
Among the 656 controls, 482 were blood tests and 174 urine tests. The blood tests were analysed in
relation to the biological passport and for specific anti-doping analyses.Bruno Genevois, President of the AFLD, underlined that "all samples collected on the 2015 Tour deFrance were analysed in France, at the Châtenay-Malabry laboratory, which is accredited by theWorld Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and which uses all the latest detection methods."The Lausanne laboratory was used for the pre-competition mission as well as a support laboratoryduring the event. The UCI, the CADF and the AFLD have agreed to keep the samples for potentialretrospective analyses in the future. As for all Grands Tours, all the collected samples concerning thebest five riders in the general classification will be kept for ten years for potential retrospectiveanalyses.
UCI President Brian Cookson concluded: "I would like to highlight once again the excellent climate inwhich all the stakeholders involved in the fight against doping work together on a daily basis for thebenefit of our sport. In particular, I would like to congratulate the AFLD and the CADF for theircollaboration on this 2015 Tour de France. Thanks to the sharing of information between all antidopingactors and a strategy focused on even more targeted controls, we can be confident of therobustness of our programme."
For more information contact:
Christophe Lécureuil
CADF Press Relations
+41 79 103 1976
media@cadf.ch
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