Cycling's independent anti-doping advocacy group, the Mouvement pour un Cyclisme Crédible (MPCC), has released a statement calling on the UCI to 'stop the escalating medicalisation of the sport' and establish firmer rules around products cyclists can use.
The statement cites products like ketones, which the MPCC outlaws but the UCI recently recommended against without formally banning, and the opioid painkiller Tapendatol, which the group describes as "up to ten times stronger than Tramadol [a banned substance]".
