The Orica-GreenEdge team has announced it has ended its membership of the Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC), after what it describes as “an evaluation of current initiatives and efforts made for a healthy sport".
In a brief statement, Orica-GreenEdge team manager Shane Bannan said the team preferred to now work with the “official organisations in collaboration with all the other teams and stakeholders of cycling".
The MPCC issued an initial response via Twitter, saying it has taken note of the Australian WorldTour team's decision and that it will convene for its next board meeting on March 3.
“We would like to thank all the current and former members of the MPCC for the discussions and initiatives and for sincerely helping the sport move further in the right direction,” Bannan said in the statement.
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“We fully support the initiatives that have now become an integrated part of the rules of the sport. Going onwards, we will be a strong supporter of seeing these and other initiatives being further developed by the official organisations in collaboration with all the other teams and stakeholders of cycling."
MPCC rules and disputes
In the past year several WorldTour and Professional Continental teams have left the MPCC after problems with the interpretation of the voluntary association’s strict but not always clear rules that were created to fight and deter doping and medicinal abuse in the professional peloton.
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