Cycle Sport March 2007 carried a good article about Team Slipstream (Powered by Chipotle) :
The team was setup by Johnathan Vaughters : Slipstream will have a squad of 23.
The ethos of the team is to ride clean ie. no dope of any kind.
To that end the teams doctor - Prentice Steffan formerly of USPS - says the squads program "is a quantum step for anti-doping".
The program is preventative in that riders will be monitored throughout the season and off season.
Slipstream quantify that 1,200 blood and urine tests will be conducted for the 23 member squad during a 12 month period.
These tests will build a compndium of biomarkers - biomarkers being a physiological profile of each rider in the 23 man squad.
If a riders profile becomes altered in any way from his physiological profile, following regular testing, the rider in question is prevented from starting a race.
In addition, not only is the rider responsible for maintaining the integrity of his profile, the team will also be responsible for ensuring that the riders profile is
maintained.
All of this is before a rider is tested by UCI/WADA.
"what we're trying to do is to prevent any doped rider from ever starting an event" says Vaughters.
The testing will be conducted by an independent authority which is unlike other team anti-doping programs where the program is managed "in-house".
The independent body testing Slipstream is www.agencyfor cyclingethics.com
Other contributors to the testing program will be Dr Don Catlin UCLA Lab and Paul Scott of Cyclingethics.
Vaughters has asked WADA to vet the entire program and to come forward with added suggestions regarding the prgram and Vaughters has been in contact with Alain Rumph, UCI's ProTour manager to outline the program.
Vaughters stated that all information form their program, plus the physiological profiles of all riders will be forwarded to WADA.
If nothing else : Vaughters seems to talk a good fight.
The team was setup by Johnathan Vaughters : Slipstream will have a squad of 23.
The ethos of the team is to ride clean ie. no dope of any kind.
To that end the teams doctor - Prentice Steffan formerly of USPS - says the squads program "is a quantum step for anti-doping".
The program is preventative in that riders will be monitored throughout the season and off season.
Slipstream quantify that 1,200 blood and urine tests will be conducted for the 23 member squad during a 12 month period.
These tests will build a compndium of biomarkers - biomarkers being a physiological profile of each rider in the 23 man squad.
If a riders profile becomes altered in any way from his physiological profile, following regular testing, the rider in question is prevented from starting a race.
In addition, not only is the rider responsible for maintaining the integrity of his profile, the team will also be responsible for ensuring that the riders profile is
maintained.
All of this is before a rider is tested by UCI/WADA.
"what we're trying to do is to prevent any doped rider from ever starting an event" says Vaughters.
The testing will be conducted by an independent authority which is unlike other team anti-doping programs where the program is managed "in-house".
The independent body testing Slipstream is www.agencyfor cyclingethics.com
Other contributors to the testing program will be Dr Don Catlin UCLA Lab and Paul Scott of Cyclingethics.
Vaughters has asked WADA to vet the entire program and to come forward with added suggestions regarding the prgram and Vaughters has been in contact with Alain Rumph, UCI's ProTour manager to outline the program.
Vaughters stated that all information form their program, plus the physiological profiles of all riders will be forwarded to WADA.
If nothing else : Vaughters seems to talk a good fight.