Vaughters says night controls could have stopped blood-doping era

July 20 : Former professional cyclist and Cannondale-EF team boss Jonathan Vaughters weighed in on the row over pre-dawn doping tests at the Tour de France, arguing such controls could have exposed cycling's blood-doping era decades earlier had they existed at the time.Riders including race leader Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard were woken in the early hours of Sunday for unannounced doping checks ahead of the 15th stage, prompting complaints that the disruption to sleep was unfair and potentially dangerous.Vaughters, who rode professionally through the late 1990s and early 2000s, defended the practice."2am testing is one of the very effective ways to prevent peptide (EPO, hGH) and testosterone micro dosing," Vaughters wrote on social media. "If UCI had tested us in 2001 at 2am? We'd al