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Pereiro & Sánchez on Operacion Puerto

By Jessica | Permalink | No Comments | October 31st, 2006 | Trackback

Riders are speaking out on the subject of Operacion Puerto, including Spaniards Oscar Pereiro and Samuel Sánchez. From CyclingNews:

Oscar Pereiro, second in this year’s Tour de France, but who stands a chance of being declared the winner if Floyd Landis loses the case against his positive testosterone test, gave his opinions about doping and the Operación Puerto fiasco to the Spanish newspaper that broke the story, El Pais.”We must fight against the dopers within the laws, together and without haste”, Pereiro said.

“It is necessary to collaborate. Many riders are going to lose their jobs as a consequence of the Operación Puerto. And when the judge gives his verdict, I don’t know how many will be guilty - there will not be many. That seems unjust to me. It is clear that, if there is some cyclists implicated, it is necessary to sanction him, but that has to be decided by the judge, not by anyone else. The leaks to the mass media have done damage”.

Another Spanish rider who spoke on the Operación Puerto affair and its consequences is Samuel Sánchez. “Cycling has been the only sport in which so many people have been the condemned. Soccer players such as Carlos Gurpegui (Athletic de Bilbao), who was sanctioned for nandrolone, and had the opportunity to defend himself before before the license was revoked,” said the Euskaltel-Euskadi rider.

“I am convinced that many riders have no part in doping. We have to bear in mind that cycling is the most tested sport. All that has happened invites us to reflect on whether the controls that we have are totally trustworthy. There are many false positives, many errors,” he concluded.

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