"I don't think I'd leave," Nibali said in an interview with Cycling Weekly. "I have my technical staff here, the people I wanted in the team. There's a good group, all around me and united."
Cycling's governing body, the UCI, called the doping scandal "an extremely serious situation" that reflects poorly on the Kazakh team and its management. It asked its licence commission to review Astana's ethical record before it issues a renewal of the first division, WorldTour licence for the 2015 season.
Nibali explained yesterday that the cases in the Continental team, what he called Astana Two, are different and separate from his first division team. He added the Iglinskiy cases should be treated as one since they are part of the same family.
"The WorldTour licence for me is going to be OK," Nibali added. "In this moment, I don't think there will be a problem."
The UCI said that next week it will name the teams with licences to race in the 2015 WorldTour. It withheld Katusha's licence for 2013, but the team appealed and won its case to race in the WorldTour.
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"As long as Vincenzo has a team with a contract in place and a licence, he can't leave," Nibali's agent, Alex Carera told Cycling Weekly.
"There's no clause that allows him to get out. If the team doesn't have a licence though, all the riders would be free to leave."
Nibali joined Astana in 2013. His contract runs through the 2016 season.
