Matt White is the 'Rider 9' in USADA’s report
The suspension of Team Orica-GreenEdge Sports Director Matt White shocks the cycling fans all across the globe as doping continuous to damage the sport of cycling.
USADA’s 1000 paged evidence on Lance Armstrong involved several names and White has been identified as the rider 9 in the report.
Names of as many as 26 cyclist’s came up and 11 of them are Armstrong’s former teammates and have direct knowledge of Team US Postal Service.
The sports of cycling is going through a very sensitive phase and Team Orica-GreenEdge General Manager, Shayne Bannan has briefed that, now is the perfect time to make things right and decisions taken at this time will benefit the sports in the future.
"We want to contribute to this process and we want to involve both the teams and the UCI,” he noted.
“The teams will meet with the UCI in the beginning of December and we are fully committed to participate actively in real and long-term solutions for the sport”.
“We're a new team in the sport and it's important to us to show initiative for something so fundamental for cycling".
Team Owner Gerry Ryan also noted that the being a “clean team” is amongst the team’s core objectives.
"To maintain public confidence in our strict adherence to this principle OGE has appointed an eminent and independent external expert to audit the rigour and effectiveness of the team's anti-doping policies and procedure," he explained
Matt stepped down from the role himself on October 13th, 2012 and admitted his involvement in one of the most professional, sophisticated and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.
He was then sacked by the Australian National team where he was employed as the men’s professional coordinator.
The Australian team will now undergo a full external re-evaluation of its procedures and policies run by the Sydney based anti-doping consultant Vance, who was the first full-time drug testing officer in the Australian Sports Drug Agency when it was introduced
back in 1989
She was the doping control program manager at the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2000 and is also a former member of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
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