The Computer Sciences Company (CSC), head sponsor of Bjarne Riis successful ProTour cycling squad, have announced that they will be standing by the Danish ex-pro, despite his confessions that he used performance enhancing drugs during is own cycling career. The same revelations caused MAN to withdraw their money from the squad, but CSC have decided that there is still sufficient positive (no pun intended) value in the cycling team as a form of advertising.

Quoted on Eurosport, CSC executive Henrik Bo Pedersen said “an important factor in our decision is Team CSC’s groundbreaking anti-doping program, which has become a model for clean sports in general.

“Bjarne has been instrumental in establishing the program, and we believe his continued leadership in Team CSC and the sport is critical to ongoing efforts to clean up cycling. Indeed, we strongly encourage all of the ProTour teams to implement anti-doping programs similar to the one in place at Team CSC.”