Serving a two-year ban for Biological Passport violation, Jonathan Tiernan-Locke has recently called the UK Anti-Doping agency a “mickey mouse” court and strongly criticized procedures he’d gone through. Even though the UCI president warned the former Team Sky rider that he “punt himself in a deeper and deeper hole”, the Briton refuses to accept the sanctions, neither to stop being involved in professional cycling.

"Whilst I know I can't compete, I have no respect for the sanction and won't waste my time reading the terms," Tiernan-Locke told Cyclingnews.

"Obviously I can't take it any further, but I now have no faith in the governing body or the process I went through.  I've spent the majority of my life involved with cycling and that's not going to change.  I will continue to be involved during my ban, and continue coaching and giving advice to athletes.  Nobody can stop me doing that."