Samuel Sánchez, involuntary positive according to the UCI

Almost two years later, the Professional Cycling Union (UCI) made the resolution of the 'Samuel case' public this Monday.

The UCI confirmed its positive, but acknowledged its unintentionality. A resolution that arrives late, but that serves to leave immaculate the sports curriculum of a Samuel Sánchez that had the deference of attending to MD in the middle of the vortex

Before the resolution and the sending of the document, the former runner spoke with the newspaper MARCA, the first medium to anticipate his reaction to the resolution that was communicated to him by email while he was riding his bike. “I had been waiting for this moment to come. It shows that there was no intention, that I never wanted to dope myself. I'm calm, no one will say that I doped on purpose. I can look people in the face. In the analysis, a nanogram of that peptide appeared, only one, due to the contamination of a legal supplement that I prefer not to say“Said the cyclist from his home in Oviedo.

Goodbye hasty

The Asturian, who I already had the decision taken to retire in 2017 and that he gladly accepted this resolution that he signed and sent to the UCI last Thursday, he was forced to hang up the bike earlier than expected by a resolution whose end was late.

At least, the UCI has acknowledged in its communiqué that there was no intentionality, which leaves "a calm head" for the 2008 Olympic champion in Beijing, podium finisher in the Tour and winner of stages in both the 'Grande Boucle' and the Vuelta, who at all times offered himself "to collaborate with the competent authorities" .

You will not have an economic sanction

Despite there being no financial sanction (in these cases the runner is usually punished with 70% of his salary) and the UCI accept the possibility that the origin of the adverse result came through a contaminated supplement that Sánchez was using, yes there will be a sanction until the August 16. "The least there can be" and less than the usual four years with which Nicola Ruffoni, Igor Merino, Stefan Pirazzi or Samuele Conti were recently punished.

His can be considered a case of involuntary doping, to whom José Luis Terreros refers. “The World Anti-Doping Code should distinguish more between accidental and fraudulent ones“, says the director of the Anti-Doping Agency (AEPSAD).

He does not intend to return

He will not be able to run the next two months, an insignificant news for the already ex-runner, who do not think about going back. Samu is very motivated with his new life, which is partly linked to cycling thanks to the school with which he collaborates in his land "which is giving many boys the opportunity to fulfill the dream that I achieved by being a professional ”.

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