Riis' anti-doping program ends

February 05, 2009

The Danish pro cycling team, Team Saxo Bank, has ended it's anti-doping program run by Dr. Rasmus Damsgaard.

According to the danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten the reason is the introduction of the biological passport program run by the International cycling federation (UCI). - The UCI has set a standard which means that we would simply be doubling up," Saxo Bank spokesman Bryan Nygaard told Jyllands-Posten Wednesday.

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