This Sunday, television station France 2 broadcasted a report about doping. It has demonstrated how the UCI Biological Passport is limited. For this report, eight athletes were doped (EPO, Human Growth Hormone, blood transfusions and corticosteroids) under supervision for a period of 29 days and with the use of micro-doses, the journalist proved that the passport may be circumvented.

A lot of statistics were presented. For VO2 max test, an average improvement of 6.1% was recorded, while an average gain of 2.1% was reported in the 14km static bike time trial. Guillaume Antonietti, one participant of this test, explained that it is incredible. "It's another planet, it's not human. And it's very worrying when you think we only took micro-doses."

The report conclude that the experiment demonstrates that "a clean passport is not necessarily the passport of a clean athlete."
On Twitter, a lot of French riders criticized this report. Pierre Rolland, the Team Europcar leader, said: "A discouraging, baffling report, biological passport useless or unusable! Bravo!"