PARIS (AP) - the Chairman of the Board of Directors of cycling has renewed his call for sentences more heavy use of EPO, while insisting on the fact that cycling is clean sports.
International Cycling Union President Pat McQuaid said the team Monday it supports doubling the length of suspensions for the first time offenders, tested positive for EPO from two years to four log. He also stated that Alberto Contador doping cases be resolved before the end of the year.
"Personally, I am in favour of an increase in the duration of the suspension," said McQuaid, having supported more severe penalties in an interview with the Associated Press last month. "He should have four years for those who take the EPO prohibitions."
"We are going to propose as soon the federations and that they should be on the same line as we."
The Spanish cycling Federation are defined to determine if Contador is banned for two years after having tested positive for Clenbuterol for his victory in France tour this year. Contador, a champion three times Tower accuses meat rotten for his positive test.
"At the end of the month of August, accompanied of the, we gave the opportunity to explain himself, Contador" McQuaid said. "Twenty-four hours later, he told us this story of contaminated meat." We asked the experts to conduct a study to see if its version is credible. There is a decision before the end of the year. »
Clenbuterol is a steroid muscle building and weight loss.
McQuaid also spoke of the possibility of distributing reduces riders suspensions caught in the "light" substances
"We need to make a difference between the light and heavy," said McQuaid. "EPO is serious, which should be a four-year ban." Ventolin, for example, could be six or nine months. »
Claiming that cycling is the cleanest of all sports, McQuaid said that most of the riders do not substances of enhancing performance.
"Thanks to our biological passport (program), we noticed that the parameters have improved," McQuaid said. "Most of the riders is own."
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