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Nobody would have imagined that the UCI is so much concerned by the anti-doping, she would create a list under each degree of suspicion, all the riders at the start of the last Tour de France . It is nonetheless what happened. The body headed by Pat McQuaid had established this list that the team performed daily in order to guide appropriate officials responsible for anti-doping controls. Before knowing the indices of each of the 198 riders at the start, however, it is necessary to make some clarification on that list and what degree of suspicion. The latter was established by Pierre-Edouard Sottas, a former researcher at the laboratory in Lausanne in 2010 (now the AMA), following the study and analysis of the biological passport for each rider, and based on data obtained by control achieved by 1 July, the eve of the Tour.
The different degrees of suspicion range from 0 to 10. 10 being the maximum threshold of suspicion. This list, also provided to independent agents of the AMA , was therefore intended to guide auditors and to target potentially doped riders. Each rider, in addition to its index had "right" to a few comments in case of inconsistent data (with respect to hemoglobin and hematocrit in particular) to the approach of a big race like the Tour thus . However, one should not immediately throw stones at those whose index is high. The team makes it clear that some diseases may explain abnormal values and is also reported that none of the runners high index has been tested positive on the last tour .
The biological passport was in any case allowed the UCI to create a new method to fight against doping. Remains whether it is effective enough and if the riders have not already taken the measure of the biological passport and could already afford to "play" with. With the publication of this list, ultra-confidential, doping returns briskly in the news cyclist. But see the positive side. An overwhelming majority of riders have a low index of suspicion.