Details of the critical report on Astana’s anti-doping policies compiled by researchers from the University of Lausanne emerged on Tuesday following the publication of the UCI Licence Commission’s report explaining its decision not to revoke the team’s WorldTour status. The Astana team had a spate of doping cases last year, prompting the UCI to request the withdrawal of its licence in February.
According to some extracts detailed in the Licence Commission’s seven-page reasoned decision, the Social and Sports Sciences Institute of the University of Lausanne (ISSUL) considered that Astana constituted a “high-risk team.”
In its own report from February 6, the ISSUL underlined that there was a “discrepancy between the so-called organisation [of the team] and the real organisation”. It also pointed to a “globally inadequate organisation of the management” and “a cultural problem within management”.
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From the Licence Commission report, it is clear that the ISSUL doesn't believe in Astana's work to improve its management and avoid doping cases. Those doubts certainly played a key role when the UCI announced in February that it wanted to suspend Astana's WorldTour licence.
The ISSUL also complains that Alexandre Vinokourov's team showed “some documents which do not reflect the reality of its organisation”.
More concretely the ISSUL said that “team management is inadequate because it neglects the lowest riders and doesn't provide them a real follow-up”. In addition the report stated that “some riders are let very self-sufficient, in particular when they stay far from the team, without any real control of training, performance, tiredness, etc, which creates a high-risk [of doping] for these riders”.
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