Pedal, there is nothing to see.
Nairo Quintana brushes aside doping suspicions as two of his relatives were taken into custody on Monday, as part of a preliminary investigation.
In a statement, the Colombian rider of the Arkea-Samsic team assured to be "clean".
"I mean that no doping substance has ever been found […] I have nothing to hide and never had anything to hide […] I have been a clean runner throughout my sporting life" said the cyclist.
Comunicado oficial.
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- NairoQuinCo (@NairoQuinCo) September 22, 2020
Nairo Quintana, 30, was heard by investigators in a free hearing Monday afternoon.
His brother Dayer, who runs alongside him in the Breton team, was also.
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The Spanish physiotherapist Mikel Otero and the Colombian doctor Fredy Gonzales Torres, members of his close guard and the staff of Arkéa-Samsic on this Grande Boucle, were still in custody Tuesday evening.
The gendarmes of the Central Office for the fight against attacks on the environment and public health (OCLAESP) found "many medicinal products" in the room of the two runners.
They also found in the establishment more than 100 ml of physiological serum, with injection equipment.
“A method that can be qualified as doping”, they summarize.
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The shadow of doping has been hovering for several days around the performance of some cyclists in this 2020 edition.