Tinkoff-Saxo have confirmed that Roman Kreuziger will start the Tour de Pologne this weekend and may ride next month's Vuelta a Espana, despite the anti-doping authorities having an open biological passport case against him.
Kreuziger, 28, was sidelined on the eve of the Tour de France after the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation revealed that they had found anomalies in his biological passport between 2011 and 2012 and that he was under investigation.
However Tinkoff-Saxo have not suspended Kreuziger and have today confirmed that he will ride the Tour de Pologne.
"We felt that it wasn't appropriate to race him at the Tour de France due to the timing. There's been a month and he's had a chance to get organised. If you look at it from the legal standpoint he's innocent until proven guilty," Tinkoff-Saxo general manager Stefano Feltrin told Cycling News.
"There's going to be a trial I suppose, or maybe not, but as a team we have to apply the contract and that's based on the model created by the UCI and I couldn't see a clause in there that says that we have to suspend him. We have to allow him to race as long as the UCI don't suspend him."
The Tour de Pologne begins on Sunday with a 226km stage from Gdansk to Bydgoszcz.
