By Hamish Mackay Follow @@H_Mackay Roman Kreuziger's Tinkoff-Saxo team have hit back at UCI president Brian Cookson after he criticised their selection of the rider for the Tour of Poland. Tinkoff-Saxo published an open letter to Cookson criticising comments he made after the Czech Republic rider was provisionally suspended based on biological passport irregularities. Kreuziger was omitted from Tinkoff-Saxo's Tour de France squad and, his team say, was not suspended, by them or the UCI, until he was selected for this month's Tour of Poland. The letter from Tinkoff-Saxo managing director read Stefano Feltrin followed a series of messages from team owner Oleg Tinkoff on Twitter, threatening legal action against the UCI, although many of the Russian's comments on the social networking site should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Roman Kreuziger was omitted from Tinkoff-Saxo Tour de France team
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Tinkoff-Saxo say he was never suspended by them or UCI
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Rider was selected for Tour of Poland, then banned retrospectively by UCI
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Czech cyclist given suspension only 48 hours before Tour started
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Oleg Tinkoff threatened UCI with legal action
The letter read: 'What seems inexplicable to us is how @placeholder can decide that from a certain moment in time but also retroactively the interpretation of the rule, that riders will not be provisionally suspended for alleged blood passport violations, which has applied since 2011 when the blood passport was introduced, shall be revised.