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Danish agency to keep eye on Austrian doping probe (Extra)
May 18, 2009, 14:55 GMT
Copenhagen - The Danish agency Anti Doping Denmark said Monday it would monitor developments in a criminal probe launched by Austrian proscecutors over alleged blood doping involving among others Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen.
'If he (Rasmussen) is convicted in Austria then we might consider opening a probe. But it is too early to say yet,' Jens Evald, head of Anti Doping Denmark, told Danish news agency Ritzau.
Evald said it was not clear if the possible evidence would be handed over to a civil agency like Anti Doping Denmark or the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Rasmussen is currently serving a two-year ban over lying about his whereabouts in connection with doping tests prior to the 2007 Tour de France.
Blood doping is mainly used in endurance sports. Athletes are injected blood that has been enriched with performance-enhancing red blood cells.
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