At the 2015 Giro d’Italia, Bardiani-CSF allowed a rider to start the three-week race despite pre-race tests showing an low cortisol level. But, this Italian team is part of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Credible (MPCC) and this association forbids this situation. So, Bardiani-CSF risks expulsion.

Contrary to Lampre-Merida with Chris Horner before the Vuelta, Bardiani-CSF did not want to reveal the name of the rider and insisted it has done nothing wrong.

"As of this Friday prior to the start of the Giro d'Italia, MPCC has formally requested to the team BARDIANI-CSF - through its president - not to enter this rider into the race and to prescribe eight days off-race as from the date the sample was taken by the UCI, in accordance with article 9 of MPCC regulations and its annex", MPCC explained.

"MPCC considered that the explanations provided by the team BARDIANI-CSF were not sufficient to keep the rider in the race and immediately invited the team manager to attend the board of directors scheduled on June 8th in Lyon, in order to provide further explanation and allow the board to review this case."

UCI do not forbid a rider with a low cortisol level to race but MPCC rules call for a minimum eight-day rest period or until cortisol levels return to normal.

"The rider in question started the Giro with perfectly normal levels that were in order for the UCI and the race organiser," Roberto Reverberi, the senior directeur sportif of the Italian team told Tuttobiciweb. "For the MPCC, that based its decision on the controls only done on the Thursday before the start, he should have rested for eight days before returning to competition. But on Saturday of the team time trial we did a new control and all the values were okay. We immediately informed the MPCC and we're ready to supply further clarification at the meeting in June."