Jonathan Tiernan-Locke has hit out once again at the biological passport, saying that he finds it "worrying" that the Roman Kreuziger case was allowed to go so far.
The UCI recently dropped their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over Kreuziger, whose ban for passport anomalies last year had been overturned by the Czech cycling federation. The news came just days before the scheduled hearing and the UCI would go no further than saying it was due to newly-obtained information.
Tiernan-Locke is himself currently serving a ban relating to abnormal passport values dating back to 2012 when he rode for Endura Racing and before he joined Team Sky, and they subsequently got rid of him.
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"I’m really happy for Kreuziger that he has finally been cleared," he told the Western Morning News, "but it’s so worrying that it got that far.
"I can only imagine the expense he must have incurred – and he must have been almost out the door on his way to Switzerland [where CAS is based] when the UCI decision came. It was so last-minute.
"His reputation has taken a massive hit, just like mine has, and also that of his team."
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