This Sunday, the Team Sky responded via its website about the revelations of the Mail on Sunday. The daily said that the current sports director of the British formation, Servais Knaven, have resorted to illegal products when defending the colors of the Dutch TVM team. The revelations of the Mail on Sunday are based on court documents. In 1998, TVM was in the heart of a doping scandal after the discovery of a large number of EPO bulbs in the truck of the team.

“We have taken these allegations very seriously. In the limited time we have had we have done everything possible to investigate them. We have interviewed Servais at length. More importantly we handed over the information presented to us to three independent world class anti-doping experts for their analysis and expert opinion,” read the statement from the team. “Their view on the basis of what has been presented to us is that there is no proof of doping and Servais continues to maintain his innocence. We would be happy to share these findings with any other anti-doping agency."

"It is important to remember that no charges were ever brought against Servais. This goes back over 15 years and has been looked at several times during that period.”