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PARIS -- Cyclings governing body condemned the leak Friday of a confidential document that ranks riders at last years Tour de France on a scale of doping suspicion. French sports daily LEquipe published what it said was UCIs "index of suspicion" for all 198 riders from the 2010 Tour on a grade of 0-10, with 10 being the highest level of suspicion and zero the lowest. "The UCI deplores the leak," UCI spokesman Enrico Carpani told The Associated Press by telephone. "The list exists, yes, we havent hidden that." Carpani said the list was meant as a "working tool" to support the drug-testing process. He said the UCI would issue a formal statement later Friday. Tour race director Christian Prudhomme said the existence of such a list only serves to underline how seriously the fight against doping is being taken in cycling. "Its because cycling is a forerunner (in the fight against doping) that there is a list," Prudhomme said. "There is no secret index. There is a list made by one of the only three international federations that uses the biological passport. A tool, certainly a plus, in the fight against doping." Two riders were listed at 10, one at nine and several more at eight. Most of the riders scored below four. The ratings were based on readings drawn from each riders biological passport profile before the Tour, including the latest blood tests on July 1, two days before the start of the race. The AP has decided not to publish any individual rankings because it did not want to unfairly implicate any riders. Although cycling, and especially the Tour itself, have been rocked by doping scandals over the years, Prudhomme said the sport is making progress in eradicating doping. "You shouldnt turn things around and again associate the word suspicion to a discipline which is fighting (against doping)," he said. "Only those (sports) which have the biological passport can have (a list)." But several cyclists criticized the existence of the list. "Im all for catching cheats but draw the line at this sort of thing which could be based on 1 single wayward statistic," Australian rider Robbie McEwen, a former three-time green jersey sprint champion on the Tour, said on Twitter. "And who leaked it??" Sprint champion Mark Cavendish of Britain, a multiple sprint-stage winner at the Tour, also expressed his view on Twitter. "So theres a leaked 1-10 suspicion scale for all 2010 TourDeFrance riders," he said. "So now EVERYONES suspicious, but just HOW suspicious?!" Former Cofidis rider Cedric Vasseur, who was president of the riders union before resigning two years ago, mocked the UCI on his Twitter account. "I guess next year UCI will indicate the risk level of each rider on his bike with an "Approved by UCI" stamp... Same for the Team cars..," he said. Vasseur was banned from the 2004 Tour while under investigation for suspected doping and later cleared. There was one doping case at last years Tour, with winner Alberto Contador testing positive for clenbuterol during a rest day. He blamed the finding on eating contaminated beef and was cleared by the Spanish cycling federation. Contadors case is currently under appeal at the Court sof Arbitration for Sport. The list was handed to UCI anti-doping officials at the race, as well as drug-testing observers from the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA confirmed to the AP that its observers had received the list from the UCI during the race. "WADA has been informed by the UCI of the provision of this list to the Independent Observer (IO) teams who were present at the 2010 Tour," WADA spokeman Terence ORorke said in an email. "We are enquiring as to whether any leak may have emanated from the IO team." Scores of zero and one on the UCI list indicated riders who were considered to have extremely clean records, according to LEquipe, while rankings between two and four were based on passport profiles that fluctuated at a specific time but were otherwise normal. Scores ranging from six to 10 indicated a high level of circumstantial evidence pointing to potential doping because of a recurrence of fluctuations in passport profiles or alleged doping at previous races such as the Giro dItalia and Spanish Vuelta, LEquipe said. One example of a fluctuating passport profile is a sudden drop in hemoglobin in the weeks leading up to the Tour. This constitutes circumstantial evidence, because it could indicate a rider extracting his own blood and then reinjecting it to boost performance. Variations in hematocrit levels were also monitored, a standard part of anti-doping procedures in cycling. jerseys from china . 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