UCI denies preferential treatment on testing towards Astana

Team Astana collects the accolades for winning stage 4's TTT.

Team Astana collects the accolades for winning stage 4's TTT. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

The UCI has said that it is "confident that there was no preferential treatment given to any team during the Tour." The denial comes on the back of a story in Monday’s editions of French dailies Le Monde and Le Figaro alleging that the Astana team had benefited from preferential treatment on drug testing during this year’s Tour de France.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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