Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible

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The Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible (short MPCC ; dt . Movement for a credible cycling ) is an on 25. July 2007 due to the problem of doping in cycling of eight cycling teams of the categories UCI ProTeam and the UCI Professional Continental Team formed Working Group, which later other teams and other organizations joined.

At the end of 2014, the MPCC had 67 cycling teams, twelve cycling associations, ten sponsors, eight race organizers, four agents and three "symptomatic members".

history

The MPCC was founded by the six French cycling teams ag2r Prévoyance , Agritubel , Bouygues Télécom , Cofidis , Crédit Agricole and Française des Jeux as well as the German teams Team Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile Team . Was that not all cycling team at the meeting of basic founding AIGCP two days before the start of the July 5 de France 2007 Tour the ethics code signed. A representative of a Spanish team is said to have stated that they would not do doping , but take medicine like any other athlete, whereupon the representatives of the eight teams left the meeting. On the agenda was the expulsion of Relax-GAM Fuenlabrada , Saunier Duval-Prodir , Caisse d'Epargne , Lampre-Fondital and Discovery Channel from the organization because the teams violated the code of ethics by employing drivers involved in the Fuentes doping scandal had.

On June 10, 2008, the Volksbank team was confirmed as an official MPCC member after a three-month probationary period and joined the founding members.

In 2011, AG2R-La Mondiale , Cofidis , Team Europcar , Francaise des Jeux , Garmin-Cervélo , Skil-Shimano and Bretagne-Schuller were members of the MPCC. The first five teams mentioned took part in the 2011 Tour de France . According to the President of the MPCC Roger Legeay - until 2008 team leader of the MPCC co-founder Crédit Agricole, which has now been dissolved - these drivers are checked by the UCI using an internal test system in addition to the doping controls . None of the drivers showed any abnormalities indicating doping. The GreenEdge Cycling Team joined the MPCC in 2012, the year the team was founded. In the following period the stepped MPCC also UCI Continental Team , UCI Women's Teams , national cycling federations and race organizers at.

aims

The MPCC use its own Angabene for strict compliance with the Code of Ethics of the UCI ( "Code de Conduite") one. This code of ethics stated that drivers should be excluded from races if doping is suspected. All team members must sign this UCI declaration. In addition, none of the drivers in these teams have the “autorisation de médicaments à des fins thérapeutiques” (“authorization to use these drugs therapeutically”) for corticoid injections. This UCI regulation allows drivers to use drugs on the doping list if they have a medical certificate for this. Accordingly, the teams do not allow any of their athletes special regulations. A violation by a driver should be charged with a two-week ban.

In the course of the doping affair surrounding Lance Armstrong , the MPCC decided at the end of 2012 to take further measures to which the participating teams submit: The teams are not allowed to allow a driver with a positive doping test to start a race. Drivers who have been suspended from doping for more than six months, with the exception of one for reporting violations, may not be obliged to do so. After a corticoid injection, a driver may not participate in a race for eight days. From the first positive doping test in a team, the internal processes of the team must be checked. The team must suspend itself within twelve months after several positive doping cases.

In the aftermath of the Armstrong affair, the association of cycling organizers AIOCC decided at the end of 2012 to give the MPCC members priority in the award of wildcards for their races.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MPCC. Chiederemo chiarimenti alla Lampre sul caso Ulissi. tuttobiciweb.it, February 12, 2015, accessed February 3, 2015 (Italian).
  2. ↑ rad-net.de of July 5, 2007: Scandal: Association of professional bike teams splits
  3. ↑ rad-net.de of June 13, 2008: Team Volksbank in the "Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Credible"
  4. ↑ cyclingnews.com of July 23, 2011: MPCC riders are all clean, Legeay says
  5. ↑ velonation.com of March 8, 2012: GreenEdge joins MPCC, movement wants international sanctioning body introduced
  6. ↑ cf. Members on www.mpcc.fr , accessed on October 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ cf. cyclingnews.com of October 22, 2014: MPCC praises Astana, criticizes Neri Sottoli
  8. ↑ velonation.com of October 30, 2012: MPCC calls on tougher anti-doping stance from several stakeholders in cycling
  9. ↑ radsport-news.com of December 1, 2012: Wildcard allocation: priority for MPCC members

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