The decision last year by Bjarne Riis to put so many eggs in the Alberto Contador basket may yet prove costly for the team, with the UCI warning today that the squad could potentially be demoted to Pro Continental level.

As VeloNation pointed out last October, a sanction for Contador could put Riis in a very tough position indeed. Back then a UCI source told VeloNation that article 2.15.040 §2 could be enforced if he was suspended.

The wording of that rule states that “the licence commission may withdraw the licence…if the information taken into account in granting the licence or the registration of the UCI ProTeam has changed such that the issue conditions are no longer fulfilled, or the commission considers that the new situation does not justify the issue of a licence or registration.”

Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/11088/Analysis-How-UCIs-Licence-Commission-could-strip-Saxo-Bank-of-its-ProTeam-licence.aspx#ixzz1lihVxiIz

booooooo!