WADA to investigate Freeman request to monitor and warn riders over biological passport data

Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analysis' Neil Robinson displays an example of biological passport results
Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analysis' Neil Robinson displays an example of biological passport results (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images)

The World Anti-Doping Agency's independent investigations unit is reportedly looking into a 2016 request made by former British Cycling head of medicine to gather riders' biological passport data and monitor or even warn them of fluctuations in values that could trigger an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV), according to the BBC.

British Cycling are already the subject of a WADA inquiry into an internal testing programme that picked up traces of nandrolone in the sample of a 'prominent track rider' in 2010. Nandrolone is a non-specified substance, meaning any amount found in an anti-doping control would trigger an ADRV, but according to reports, UKAD alerted British Cycling and the rider "amid concerns that it could point to a health problem or a contaminated supplement."

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