Originally Posted by DocRay

They are doing their own internal drug controls and metabolic monitoring at a closer and more advanced level than UCI or WADA doping tests. This is done independent of the directeurs or soigneurs.

CSC and Telekom are also doing this. Telekom suspended Sergei Gontchar from the Giro over 'anomalous' blood results.

Sponsors are now insisting on this, and paying for it.