Well, this is a start.

High Road Takes The Highest Road

From the team site: Team High Road is implementing a new comprehensive and independent anti-doping program. The program will be managed by Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), a company that provides anti-doping monitoring and testing programs to prevent and detect doping behavior in cyclists.

“Last year we made a strong commitment to fight against doping,” said Bob Stapleton of High Road Sports. “It is the most comprehensive program out there. It is what the team needs and what the sport needs.”

Through this program, each of the team’s riders will give a minimum of 26 random blood AND urine samples per year. This is dramatically more testing than any other program conducts and will allow ACE to build profiles of each individual rider so that they will be able to detect small changes in the body chemistry that may be caused by blood transfusions or banned substances. The profiles will use blood and urine to build hematological parameters and a urinary steroidal profile. ACE will send test results to the UCI, to WADA and to the team.

I kind of applaud them for going this route. It almost seems as if they’re dedicated in the same way Slipstream is. The next step, of course, would be for more teams to go this route. Hopefully both Slipstream and High Road will prove that cyclists can ride clean.