“Slipstream” wrote the New York Times, “has among the strictest anti-doping programs in professional sports.” Since its beginnings in 2004, the team has been the standard-bearer for untainted sports performance – not just in cycling, but for all professional sports.
Team Garmin-Slipstream is built on a mission that transcends cycling. Our goal, above all, is to usher authentic, worthy heroes back to the world’s stage by showing its riders can be both the best – and be 100% clean.
All 29 athletes on the team voluntarily participate in the program, which will test them over 600 times in 2009.
There will be an intense focus on EPO and related substances as well as a continued focus on longitudinal profiling of blood and steroid levels. Detection of traditional doping products will also be included.
The Anti-Doping Sciences Institute (ADSI) independently administers Team Garmin-Slipstream’s anti-doping program. All 29 athletes on the team voluntarily participate in the program, which will test them over 600 times in 2009. There is an intense focus on EPO and related substances as well as continued focus on longitudinal profiling of blood and steroid levels. Detection of traditional doping products is also included. Providing the oversight and program design for ADSI is Don Catlin, one of the leading names in anti doping in the United States.
True to our dedication to total transparency, we provide access to riders’ test results to approved third parties.
