Details relating to the possible publication of the independent review into Sergio Henao’s (Team Sky) controversial blood profile are still unclear, with the leading doctor who carried out the tests unwilling to disclose details to how or when the resulting data may be published.
Team Sky requested that an independent review be set up in relation to Henao’s passport data in 2014 after the team internally raised concerns over readings taken from out-of-competition tests. Henao was pulled from racing as a result but was reinstated in May of that year after the independent review committee had given the rider the all-clear to race.
At the time of Henao’s return, Team Sky and the medical team at Sheffield University, who carried out the tests, indicated that the results from their review would be published.
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However Henao’s passport data once again made the headlines last week after the UCI and their anti-doping arm, the CADF, sent the Colombian a letter relating to what Team Sky called a "potential anti-doping rule violation". Henao has less than two weeks to respond to the CADF’s request for more information, and Team Sky have once more pulled the rider from racing until further notice.
Two years have passed since Henao’s blood data first prompted action from his own team and the results and findings from the initial report appear no closer to being made public. It’s understood that they could be used in a possible defence should the situation result in a passport violation.
Last week Cyclingnews contacted Team Sky in order to seek clarity over the situation. The team have stated since 2014 that the responsibility to publish the report on Henao always lay with the medical team involved in conducting the tests, and not the team. They repeated that stance, telling Cyclingnews, “It is they who will be responsible for the timelines of publication.
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