Saxo Bank continues with Damsgaard

Team Saxo Bank will continue its anti-doping programme with Dr. Rasmus Damsgaard in the coming year, and will expand the programme to include PWC GmbH – Medizinische Testverfahren im Sport, a German company which will conduct many of the tests associated with the UCI's "biological passport".

Team manager Bjarne Riis said on the team's website, teamcsc-saxobank.com, that the inclusion of PWC, saying that "we'll be getting a more permanent set-up, as all the other teams at ProTour level will be submitted to the same kind of tests as us." The German firm will take over the work previously done by the Bispebjerg Hospital.

Damsgaard will continue to monitor all testing of Saxo Bank riders, and noted that "as all tests will be handled by PWC there won't be any unnecessary double testing and in the long run our original program will be fully integrated with UCI's and I will still be able to refine it."