Doping

The UCI License Commission reports into Astana when they nearly lost their license flagged riders training on their own with their own doctors and team staff not involved or taking joint responsibility for whereabouts updates as factors that meant they were a team "at risk" of doping so shouldn't have a license to even ride.

To get it back

the Team said that it had adopted internal regulations to better prevent doping: a prohibition of working with doctors outside the Team; the introduction of a doping-free culture within the Team; access by the Team doctor to a rider's biological passport values and all other relevant information before offering a rider a contract; access by the Team to riders' whereabouts information; reasonable racing schedules for all riders; a support system for riders with regards to information on whereabouts; the introduction of comprehensive medical support for riders, as well as regular medical checks, this in part resorting to the assistance of an external medical consultant.