Team Sky have leapt to the defence of Servais Knaven after doping accusations against the team’s director sportif resurfaced in an article published in the British press.
Knaven, who rode for TVM, QuickStep, T-Mobile/High Road and Milram during his career has always maintained that he never took performance enhancing drugs as a professional rider, however the recent accusations centre around court documents from the TVM trial in 2001, which allege that Knaven had doped.
Knaven was a member of the Dutch team in 1998, the year in which a team car was found to have contained 104 vials of erythropoietin (EPO) on its way back from the Tour of Murcia in Spain. In the same year the Festina scandal broke at the Tour de France and Knaven, along with his TVM teammates, left the race under a cloud of suspicion.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Mail on Sunday claims to have had access to the court documents from 2001, in which the French court accepted that a number of riders had doped. Three members of the team’s management, who were on trial, were found guilty of organizing a systematic doping programame.
Team Sky, who have run a zero tolerance stance since the end of 2012 issued a statement on their website in which they state the documents from the case were handed to an independent set of experts, and that Knaven has no case to answer for.
“We have taken these allegations very seriously. In the limited time we have had we have done everything possible to investigate them. We have interviewed Servais at length. More importantly we handed over the information presented to us to three independent world class anti-doping experts for their analysis and expert opinion,” read the statement from the team.
You can read more at Cyclingnews.com
via Cyclingnews Latest News http://ift.tt/1ASBdMZ
No comments:
Post a Comment