The man who likes to be known as an innovator in cycling and a leader in the fight against doping, Bob Stapleton, got a slap in the face last year. Positive tests and doping stories of Sinkewitz, Bernucci and Honchar are not really good promotion for your ‘clean’ team.


But this year things will change. All historical, contaminated connections with the University of Freiburg were finally broken and nowadays the team management is literally on the rider’s skin. Sponsor T-Mobile had enough of it and left cycling. This year manager Stapleton will pay for the team, helped by the sum of money t...