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Hesjedal admits to doping: ‘I chose the wrong path’
In response to Michael Rasmussen’s claims that Ryder Hesjedal learned how to use EPO in 2003, the Canadian rider has come clean and publicly admitted to being a part of cycling’s “dark past.”
“I have loved and lived this sport but more than a decade ago, I chose the wrong path,” Hesjedal said in a statement released by his current team, Garmin-Sharp. “And even though those mistakes happened more than 10 years ago, and they were short-lived, it does not change the fact that I made them and I have lived with that and been sorry for it ever since.
“To everyone in my life, inside and outside the sport — to those that have supported me and my dreams — including my friends, my family, the media, fans, my peers, sponsors — to riders who didn’t make the same choices as me all those years ago, I sincerely apologize for my part in the dark past of the sport. I will always be sorry.”
In an excerpt from his autobiography, Yellow Fever, Rasmussen said he taught Hesjedal and two of his Canadian mountain bike teammates — Seamus McGrath and Chris Sheppard — how to use EPO before the 2003 world mountain bike championships. Rasmussen claims to have never witnessed the riders use the banned blood-booster, but he said the
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Rasmussen completes reunion's 5K years before wife's passing
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Ryder Hesjedal apologises for past doping following Michael Rasmussen allegations
Former Giro d’Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) has apologised for doping earlier in his career following the publication of accusations by disgraced Danish rider Michael Rasmussen.
Rasmussen claims in his forthcoming autobiography to have taught Hesjedal to take EPO in 2003 when the Canadian was a mountain bike rider for Rabobank’s development team.
And, in a statement issued last night, Hesjedal confessed he was guilty of having made “mistakes…more than ten years ago” and apologised for his part “in the dark past of the sport”.
He said: “Cycling is my life and has been ever since I can remember. I have loved and lived this sport but more than a decade ago, I chose the wrong path.
“Even though those mistakes happened more than ten years ago, and they were short-lived, it does not change the fact I made them and I have lived with that and been sorry for it ever since.
“To everyone in my life, inside and outside the sport – to those that have supported me and my dreams – including my friends, my family, the media, fans, my peers, sponsors – to riders who didn’t make the same choices as me all those years ago, I sincerely apolo