Ethics
Commitment
The fight against doping
As part of its commitment to impeccable ethics, preventing and combating doping is of paramount importance to the DECATHLON CMA CGM team. Managers, riders staff are constantly reminded to work every day to ensure that the sport remains free of doping.
Many measures have been put in place in our team to respect the principle of clean and ethical sport, which is essential for everyone's health:
- A system of prevention within the team: full medical and paramedical supervision during training courses, competitions or any other trip, so that no-one other than the team's medical staff can intervene on a medical level within the team.
- Verification by the Doctor of all medical procedures proposed outside the team framework, for the purpose of validation prior to implementation.
- Instruction for all riders on current anti-doping legislation and additional restrictions imposed by the team as part of the fight against doping.
- Biological assessments and unannounced health checks carried out at the discretion of Doctor throughout the year, including during Grand Tours if necessary.
- The inclusion in the team's internal regulations of specific points concerning ethics and the fight against doping, both for riders management.
- riders must strictly adhere to the daily whereabouts program riders enable unannounced doping controls, as well as fully accept the national and international anti-doping program and, in particular, adhere to the International Cycling Union's biological passport.
- The dismissal or non-renewal of the contract of any rider supervisor who does not comply with the internal regulations or the completion of assessments required by the team.
- The involvement of a psychologist with riders management, particularly with a view to raising awareness of ethical issues.
- The team's adherence to the MPCC (Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible) and its regulations, which impose additional constraints in the fight against doping.
Throughout the season, the Doctor is supported by the manager and sponsor in promoting health initiatives.
Involvement
MPCC
The DECATHLON CMA CGM cycling team and its partners have been promoting cycling in accordance with ethical rules, particularly those of the Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC) since the organization was founded.
The team takes all possible measures and precautions to riders that riders with sporting rules based on impeccable ethics.
The DECATHLON CMA CGM cycling team is a founding member of the MPCC, which was created in July 2007.
The code of ethics established by the MPCC not only complies with the International Cycling Union's Code of Conduct and the rules laid down by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but also goes even further by imposing even stricter rules.
It includes :
- The withdrawal of a rider receipt of a positive test result in a competition,
- Not hiring a rider in a doping case and has been sanctioned for more than six months within two years of the suspension.
- Legal action against any rider for damaging the team's image
- Measures to combat the use of harmful substances or performance-enhancing drugs such as corticosteroids: in this context, local corticosteroid injections must be approved by the Doctor , who must then prescribe a minimum of eight days off work and therefore competition.
- Team introspection when faced with several cases of positivity or ineptitude.
- A concomitant fight against technological fraud, which is considered by the MPCC to be a positive control, with the same consequences.
- Additional, unannounced blood tests.
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