The MPCC has hit back at Bardiani-CSF after the Italian team quit the voluntary organisation on Thursday complaining about the way it handled a low cortisol case at the Giro d’Italia.
The MPCC made public partway through the Giro that pre-race tests had shown an unnamed Bardiani rider to have abnormally low cortisol levels, and that his presence in the race was in contravention of the MPCC rule that requires such a rider to be withdrawn for eight days.
In an open letter published on Thursday, Bardiani team manager Bruno Reverberi voiced his disappointment in the way the MPCC managed and communicated the situation. The story originally appeared in French newspaper L’Equipe and a press release was quickly sent out on May 20, the day after Bardiani’s Nicola Boem had won stage 10.
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However, MPCC president Roger Legeay, speaking to Cyclingnews, said there was no fault on the part of his organisation and that its communications were fair and unequivocal.
“I emailed Bardiani twice before [the Giro] – once on the Friday evening and again on Saturday morning,” Legeay said. “I told them: ‘Your rider, following the rules, cannot start.’ So they were informed in a clear way, without ambiguity on our part, that a rider with an abnormally low cortisol level cannot start.
“At first we didn’t say anything [publicly] – we kept our respect as usual before the information came out in the papers. And then after, well in any case the information was true. That’s why we said yes, it’s true. We can’t say it’s not. If it’s true, it’s true.”
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