Am not against Garmin now riding as a clean team but given that they are guilty they can never call for a fully clean team
except Garmin introduced their own anti-doping measures, such as the no-needle policy before the UCI took it up, as opposed to Sky who decided having their own was inefficient (this is a team that has the money and attention to detail to go to the lengths of giving each rider toothpaste with a blue line in it) and were happy to delegate all testing responsibility to UCI, WADA etc.
Their declaration was introduced after the Armstrong story broke and was very much a reaction to it. Garmin’s approach has more integrity than Sky’s, who have lurched from one PR disaster to another (Dowsetts and Cav’s long-negotiated moves coinciding with the purge, Brailsford making a statement saying they would “work with” declared dopers appearing to be a softening of their policy once they’d realised how much impact it would have, letting Sean Yates leave during the purge ‘unimplicated’…).