Pedro Delgado speaks against 'camouflaged' sanction against Nairo Quintana

Perico Delgado, one of the best Spanish cyclists in history and current RTVE commentator, has given an interview to the colleagues of VBAR Caracol in which he has given his opinion on the situation that Nairo Quintana is living, who continues without a team after his positive for tramadol in the last Tour de France.

"What is happening to Nairo Quintana I am watching with great sorrow. Not only because Nairo Quintana is a great champion, but because I have also been a cyclist and have lived through difficult situations, what is happening to Nairo Quintana is that I don't understand him since last season," explained Delgado.

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The 1988 Tour de France winner speaks of a "camouflaged" sanction due to the fact that Nairo is not being able to find a team despite the fact that he has already been sanctioned and that the CAS assured that he had not doped, as tramadol is a banned drug that does not improve cyclists' performance:

"That you suffer a camouflaged sanction so to speak already really has no sanction but cycling people seem to want to enforce a sanction that there is no sanction."

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Perico, as he has been known since he hung up his bike, also included Miguel Angel Lopez in the bag of those unjustly sanctioned without anything proven:

"It's really a shame that this sport that we love so much as cycling is not able to be strong in the face of the helplessness that Nairo Quintana is suffering as well as Miguel Ángel López when it comes to finding a team. Neither of the two is sanctioned and therefore can be in a team but it is seen that there is a pressure and an environment that looks the other way and does not want them. Nairo is going through a really tough situation".

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