Marcos Maynar: "Contador had been on Lance Armstrong's team and the UCI has gone against everyone who has been on that team"

Dr. Marcos Maynar has given an interview in El Contranálisis in which he reviews doping and mainly talks about Operation Ilex. In this context, he explains that nothing can be done against the UCI and gives the examples of Alberto Contador and Roberto Heras.

According to Maynar, Alberto Contador did not go to the ordinary courts after his positive test for clenbuterolol for which he lost a Tour de France and a Giro d'Italia because he was aware of the consequences he would have suffered. On the other hand, he explains that he advised Roberto Heras to do so and that the justice system ended up giving him the reason.

Maynar gives Alberto Contador as an example of why cyclists do not denounce the UCI:

"As we all know from what happened to the good Alberto Contador, why he didn't denounce the UCI or go to the ordinary courts when they put him for that famous 0.001 of an anabolic substance, because if he signed and went against the UCI they wouldn't let him enter the world of the WorldTour, which is a mafia."

"The Contador thing, if you take pieces of meat to that lab in Germany and you get 20,000 amounts of clenbuterol in all of them, it would have been in anyone. And yet, Contador had been on Lance Armstrong's team and the UCI has gone against everyone who has been on that team. He knew that if he went other ways he wasn't going to get back in."

"I'll give you an example, when Heras tested positive for EPO in a laboratory in Madrid, I told him to ask for a counter-analysis in another laboratory and it was negative, but he still tested positive. As he was going to retire I told him to go through the ordinary justice system. And he has won many millions. They gave him back the Vuelta they took away from him and they paid him for the damage they caused him."

Article written by Juan Larra.