Sunweb will subject their riders to additional drug tests from 2018, launching their own internal anti-doping testing program.
The initiative, funded by title sponsor Sunweb and coordinated by the Dutch anti-doping agency, Dopingautoriteit, was announced on Thursday at the team's 2018 presentation in Berlin.
It will see all Sunweb riders across the men's, women's, and development squads subjected to out-of-competition blood and urine testing in addition to those already carried out by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) and cycling’s specific body, the Cycling Anti Doping Foundation (CADF).
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The program will use WADA’s administration system, ADAMS, for riders’ whereabouts, and the test results will be shared with CADF and WADA, with the blood tests added to each rider’s biological passport.
"This new program is completely independent; the team does not indicate when, where and which athlete will be tested. Both Team Sunweb’s male and female athletes are subject to the exact same regime; they are all tested out of competition, unannounced, and both the men and women athletes are located for testing via the ADAMS systems of which all of the team’s riders submit their whereabouts," said Dopingautoriteit's CEO Herman Ram.
"Dopingautoriteit is pleased to see that Team Sunweb has included its Development Program, a team consisting of young talents, in this regime. This is the first development program which is subject to testing of this nature which is something significant. The future of the sport always is very much connected with the next generation of athletes. Besides the detection and monitoring tools, it allows these young athletes to establish a series of biological values at a young age, which will remain a reference for their values later on in their careers."
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