Tinkoff-Saxo have not ruled out the possibility of the team and their rider, Roman Kreuziger, seeking damages from the UCI after the governing body surprisingly dropped their Biological Passport case against the Czech.
Kreuziger and the UCI had been through a protracted battle over the rider’s Passport with the UCI President Brian Cookson telling Cyclingnews last August that there were “very serious anomalies" in the Czech rider’s passport readings. Those readings dated back to Kreuziger’s time at Team Astana between March 2011 and August 2011, and from April 2012 through the end of the 2012 Giro d'Italia.
The rider was cleared by his national Federation last September and the UCI and WADA subsequently announced their intention to appeal the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and a hearing was eventually fixed for next week – only for cycling’s governing body to withdraw its appeal on Friday.
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“It’s obviously something that we’re pleased about but we think that the UCI should provide a clear explanation with what’s been learnt and how we can avoid something like this happening again,” Tinkoff-Saxo’s general manager, Stefano Feltrin, told Cyclingnews.
When asked if Krueziger and the team would seek damages, with the rider having to spend significant resources and cash on his defence, Feltrin added: “We have a lot of time to review it but that’s a possibility. If I was the one spending a lot of time and money defending myself over two years I might. For Roman, I can’t speak for him, but the team is reviewing the circumstances. We have to see how the UCI want to carry this forward. If they say ‘case closed’ let's move on then I don’t think that’s going to be enough.”
The news of the UCI dropping the case landed late on Friday and the governing body’s brief statement lacked detail.
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