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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Henao has spoken for the first time since he was withdrawn from raci🎐ng by Team Sky, saying he is optimistic about the outcome of the extra controls he is about to undergo in Colombia and hopes to soon return to racing.

Henao issued a personal statement to Cyclingnews, Biciciclismo and Tuttobiciweb. He also spoke to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:
Team Sky withdrew Henao from its racing schedule on March 19 ♓after the team's internal monthly physiological profile caught the eye of the team's expertsꦿ and set alarm bells ringing.

The UCI has not begun to investigate into a possible Biological Passport violation, as in the case of Jon👍athan Tiernan Locke, however Team Sky said that their experts had "questions about Sergio’s out-of🌳-competition control tests at altitude - tests introduced this winter by the anti-doping authorities."

Henao spent the winter at home in Rionegro in Colombia. It is at an altitude of 212😼5 me🌊tres. Team Sky wants to investigate if this played a factor in sparking Henao's unusual blood value but claimed their understanding is "limited by a lack of scientific research into ‘altitude natives’ such as Sergio."

Henao has been out of action since the Tou♒r of Oman. He is expected to r🌼eturn to Colombia when Team Sky agrees a testing protocol that can shed light on his unusual blood value.

Henao told Cyclingnews that he "shares and understands the attention Team Sky is giving to the blood value the last monthly control has highlightꦛed," pointing out he has "alwa🐟ys believed in the ethical values of cycling, and that honesty and respect for the rules come before anything else."

Henao confirmed that he is willing to "collaborate with the team to complete the medical-scientific investigation with 🌊the🐭 aim to help the investigation,"

He said he will also "make available the scientific support from highly considered experts that hav🐎e already 🐓been contacted."

Henao told El Tiempo🅠 that he is no🐷t worried by the planned further tests and what they may show.

“I have nothing to hide and I'm not worried. The team want to analyse things and look at it all💟 and I w🧔ill comply with them," he said.

“Since arriving at Team Sky I have done 30 controls and I have neve🍸r had a problem. This is internal with the team. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has never said that there was something suspicious.”

Out of competition blood test taken on January 14

In his interview with El Tiempo, Henao revealed that the out of competition🤡 blood test was carried out on February 14. However Henao was already in Europe on that date and was about to travel to the Tour of Oman.

Henao's agent Giuseppe Acquadro told Cyclingnews that the test was actually c𒉰arried out on January 14 and confirmed that Henao could have refused to undergo the test due to the WADA officials arriving later than the time slot that Henao had stipulated in his whereabouts data.

“The people from WADA called me in the hour that was stipulated in ADAMS (the whereabouts system), which was between six and seven in t✅he morning. They called me and said that they would arrive at seven, but they got lost so that I had to wait until nine,” Henao revealed to El Tiempo.

Henao will now return to🧜 Colombia where the team will put him through more testing to further understand the anomaly.

It i🌞s expected that Henao will be out of action for at least eight weeks as he undergoes more tests and so is facing a race against time to secure a place in Team Sky's squad for the Tour de France.

He is keen to get back to racing as soon a🌳s possible.

“I hope that we can q꧃uickly find a solution to this case and that I can return to competition, because I have lost the best races in Europe. This has been very hard,” he said.